Twins arrested after Google map identification

DUTCH police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google’s Street View map application, a spokesman said yesterday.

Paul Eidanus, a police spokesman in the town of Groningen, said he believed the case was the first time Street View images had been used in a Dutch criminal investigation.

A 14-year-old boy told police last September he had been robbed of £140 and his mobile phone after two men dragged him off his bicycle in Groningen, 170 kilometres north-east of the capital, Amsterdam.