Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A couple have been jailed for breaking into a Wigan woman's home and stealing cash and possessions under the nose of her terminally ill dog which had to be put sleep the following day.
Serial offenders Mark Mayren, 34, and Alysha Clayton, 31, then fraudulently used a bank card they stole in the burglary at Reedsmere Close to go on a £520 fraudulent spending spree to fuel their drug, alcohol and substance addiction.
Their total haul of possessions and cash was £1,025. Mayren also admitted attacking police, headbutting, scratching and spitting at two officers when arrested, as well as a bizarre bid to escape by hiding in the roof above a hospital toilet cubicle
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