Speed camera cut down in Manchester as police investigate three linked attacks

A speed camera has been cut down in south Manchester. The yellow camera was felled in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday, July 10) on Errwood Road in Burnage.

It is one of four potentially linked attacks on traffic cameras currently being investigated by police. The first happened at around 12:20am on on Monday, July 8, when a traffic monitoring camera, the location of which hasn't been disclosed, is said to have been targeted.

Later that day, at around 11:10am, on Edge Lane in Chorlton, damage was caused to a second speed camera. The Errwood Road camera is said to have been chopped down just after 12:15am in the early hours of this morning (July 10).

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The Manchester Evening News understands a camera installed for the region's Clean Air Zone - again whose location has not been revealed - has also been damaged and that Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are treating them as linked.

On Errwood Road this morning, the camera could be seen with plastic fencing around it having collapsed to the ground with a cut appearing to have been made around a quarter of the way up the pole.

A police car was parked at the scene. A specialist forensic crime scene investigation officer was also present and was taking photographs of the structure, and combing the areas for clues.

It is not the first time the region has seen crime of this sort. In January this year, a man was arrested after officers in Wigan chased two men who were said to be cutting down a speed camera with an angle grinder.

At the time GMP said: "There have been a series of speed cameras cut down across the district over the Christmas period, so this is an excellent result for our team."

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