Burglary heartbreak for Bawsey MD
A BAWSEY firm's managing director had her £21,000 Mercedes car, more than £4,000 in cash and irreplaceable family mementos and jewellery stolen while she was at a Christmas party on Saturday evening.
Leslie Bacon-Miller has been left devastated by the burglary at her home in Gayton Road, Bawsey, especially as some of the jewellery was given to her by close relatives when she was a child. Now she is offering a 1,000 reward to help catch the thieves.
Christmas presents which had been bought for her son James (21) and daughter Samantha (17), and hidden from them in a bedroom cupboard, were among the burglars' haul.
She and her family had been to her firm Baco-Compak's Christmas party at Searle's Holiday Centre in Hunstanton on Saturday. They left home at 7.30pm and when they got back shortly after midnight her husband, Kevin Miller, noticed the silver Mercedes CLK 270 CDi, registration LEB 100, missing from the driveway.
A brick had been used to smash rear patio doors to get into their home. From a light-timing device, they know the break-in happened between 7.30pm and 10pm.
Mrs Bacon-Miller said: "The place was just a total mess where they had trashed it, and it seemed as if they knew what they were looking for. I'm just devastated and haven't slept at all since this happened – it's going to take a while to settle down."
A fawn-coloured safe, containing 4,000 in 20 notes, a holiday fund of about 200 in 2 coins, 250 worth of Sainsbury stamps and the treasured jewellery items, had been stolen. The jewellery included a gold bracelet with charms that she had added to over the years and gold earrings.
Mrs Bacon-Miller said it looked as if the intruders had tried to get in through a conservatory at the front of her home, but were probably deterred by her dalmatian dog and went round the back instead. The dalmatian and her cocker spaniel were found unhurt in the conservatory.
She is putting up the reward for information supplied to the police which leads to the arrest, charge and conviction of those responsible for the burglary. Anyone with information should contact Detective Constable Carl Ritchie at Lynn CID on 0845 456 4567.
mike.last@
lynnnews.co.uk
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