BURGLARS targeted the homes of elderly people when they stole cash and jewellery from two houses on Lingmoor Rise, Kendal, between 1.30pm on Tuesday and 8am on Wednesday, January 10.
Kendal police are anxious to trace a five foot eight inch white male, aged about 22, who was spotted acting suspiciously outside one of the houses at around 5.30pm on Tuesday.
He had short, dark hair and was wearing a three-quarter length coat.
A man answering the same description had been seen acting suspiciously outside a house on Burton Road, Kendal, an hour earlier.
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