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A well known Liverpool businessman has been accused of stealing £500,000 of watches from the home of a football chairman.

Thomas Mee, 42, was arrested on Saturday in relation to a break-in at Marsden Manor on Macclesfield Road in Prestbury.

Marsden Manor is reported to be the private home of Bury FC chairman Steven Dale.

Mee has been charged with burglary and possession of criminal property.

The burglary relates to the alleged theft of watches worth in the region of £500,000.

The criminal property is cash in the region of £200,000.

The offences are alleged to have happened at Marsden Manor in Prestbury.

Cheshire police said that Mee and Liverpool man Vincent Ball were both arrested on Saturday.

Both men appeared at Crewe Magistrates yesterday and have been remanded in custody.

A police spokesman said to the ECHO: "Detectives investigating a burglary in Prestbury have charged two men in connection with the incident.

"Vincent Ball and Thomas Mee were both arrested on Saturday 5 October following a burglary at an address on Macclesfield Road. The pair have subsequently been charged with burglary and possession of criminal property.

"Ball (51) of Ranworth Place, Liverpool, and Mee (42) of Queens Drive, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, have both been remanded in custody and are due to appear at Chester Crown Court on Monday 4 November."

(Image: Geoff Roberts)

Mee is a former director of Mees Demolition Group Ltd, a wel known Liverpool firm. According to Companies House he resigned from the company on October 19 2018.

In 2007 Mr Mee gave an interview to the Daily Post. He said that he had launched a company called Mee's Brickwork.

At the time he said: “I think the brickwork company will probably be bigger than demolition.

“My bank told me it normally takes someone up to six years to get to where we are today in turn-over terms."