Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Two theives stole money from poppy tin in Croydon


The two men who stole a poppy tin from a builder’s yard in Croydon have been labelled the scum of the earth.
They were caught on CCTV breaking into Spring Lane Builders merchant, twice during Sunday morning. The CCTV shows them running off with cash before returning that night to steal a poppy appeal collection box.

The images of the two breaking in were posted onto social media by Olivia Betteridge, whose dad runs the business, in hope of catching them.

Olivia told the advertiser ‘these guys are absolute sum. I want them to be caught, you can’t go around doing things like this’. At 1am on Sunday morning Barry Whitmore received a call to say the alarm had gone off at the yard he runs with his son.

Mr Whitmore said "We've had break-ins before but this is the worst because of the time of year. People who donate to the Poppy Appeal often do so for personal reasons”.

"The tin had around £20 in it. We'd only had it a week. We've had one here for the last four years. We wanted to do our bit."

"You do something that's really rewarding only to get a kick in the teeth like this,”.
The break-in has now been reported to the police who have started an investigation.

I think what the thieves done was truly disgusting, especially as they didn’t care where and who were taking the money from. They decided to go through with something that would get them into so much trouble and be hated by the public, just to receive £20. I believe it was a good idea for Olivia to post a picture of the thieves on social media.

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