Cork court told iPad tracker app helped foil burglary

Det. Garda Hayes said the owner of the iPad activated GPS enabled software to identify the location of the property. File image

A tracker app on a stolen iPad helped the owner to spot its movements around Cork city and gardaí combined to use their own CCTV technology to follow a couple through the streets to their own front door.

Detective Garda Aoife Hayes said that when gardaí called to the couple’s house at Barrack Street to investigate the burglary the stolen iPad was found in a distinctive Adidas bag “at their feet in their bedroom”.