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Police Indifference to Property Theft Continues
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Written by John Of Gwent
Over the past few days groups of teenagers have ripped sections of the boundary fence around my daughter's maisonette away to make a bonfire. Last night the vandals and thieves stole wooden furniture from her garden while she watched fearful of going out to confront them and the police refused to attend to help.
My daughter tells me there are now at least eight gaps in the fence through which my grand-daughter, now thirteen months and running around, could escape onto the road or the nearby rubbish filled drainage ditch.
Splintered wood where the vandals ripped off chunks of the fence lie ready to injure her if she were to go anywhere near the boundary and therefore these criminals have imprisoned my grand-daughter in her home.
Last night at about nine o clock my daughter heard noises and voices by her back window and opened it to confront two teenagers who had come into her garden through the hole they had left from their previous vandalism and theft, and proceeded to attempt to steal two wooden bench seats I bought to allow my grand-daughter to have somewhere to sit in the garden.
They had already carted off, and started burning, the small wooden table my daughter had found in a charity shop and put out by the benches to allow my grand-daughter to sit in the garden and play.
My daughter tells me she saw two figures, dressed in dark clothes, in the dark but could hear others the other side of the fence and had no idea how many others there were. She couldn't see their faces.
When she called the police to tell them she had just been burgled their response was that the matter was "not urgent" and therefore they "could do nothing for her"
I wonder if you would feel the same were you to have this happen in your garden ?
And Ken Clarke wonders why the number of victims of crime being detained following the death of their assailant or robber is on the increase. Mind you, at least there is a slight step forward. Under Blair and Brown it was a crime to own material goods and resist their redistribution to the more needy sections of our society at knifepoint.
