I was upstairs at about 9pm on Thursday evening when I heard a voices outside my kitchen window below. I went downstairs to see who it was and found the back door was locked but there was no sign of the key.

I went into the lounge to ask my husband where the key was......he said he had no idea but he thought the back door had been left open with the key in a pot on the breakfast bar.

I heard some muffled banging in the dinning room and went to see what it was.......to see somone dissapearing out of the dinning room window. they had forced the locks.

I shouted to my husband but the <removed> scarpered along with my laptop & purse from my handbag ....having locked us in our own house.

I called 999 straight away and the police arived........... nearly 2 hrs later -so no they didn't catch them. They informed us that 2 evenings before the house 2 doors away had been burgled (TV, DVD, jewellery etc)

On Friday morning I took our dog for a walk and found 2 jewellery boxes furhter down the road with gold chains and silver bracellets in them. They aren't mine or our neighbours.

Later on Friday a kind gentleman returned my purse. It had my driving licence in it but no cash. My credit cards were still in it but I had already cancelled them with the bank. He had found it at Greenhill- we live at Parkhead.

I don't supose I'll ever see the laptop again but if anyone knows of a Dell Inspiron with the number 3 missing from the keyboard being sold, it is mine.

Yes I can claim on the insurance but it was 2 days since I backed up and as I had been working at home have lost a lot of work.

Moral of the story, lock your doors at all times, & back up everyday. :(

Did the police take finger prints etc.?
might then be link to someone who has offended before. Thats how the police caught the <removed> who stole my laptop, he got sentanced but expect he'll be out now.

thats terrible-its amazing to think that the <removed> could do this whilst you are in the house? You just dont think this will happen which,i guess,is how they get away with it-we all check everythings secure before we leave our houses,but i never lock myself in the house unless going to bed etc?
I WILL NOW THOUGH.
i hope you are both ok-so sorry youve had to go through this-thanks for the warning x x

Yes the police came for prints but say they wore gloves

Sorry to hear that Debk.... makes you think though, I take it that my pad is like fort knox as you have to enter two "buzzed" set of doors to get to my apartment and the neighbours swear there has never been a robbery before.... always a first time I suppose. I hope they catch the ****S.

What area did this happen? Just want to see if it's near me coz I am sure that I keep seing dodgey ( however you spell it ) people around the back of my garden but it may be me being paranoid.

PS I hope your ok. x

we live at Parkhead.
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Moral of the story, lock your doors at all times, & back up everyday. :(


What a nasty thing to happen!

Guess we're extremely lucky - fell asleep last night forgetting to lock the doors and the kitchen window was open :blush: - and we also live at Parkhead! Will definitely follow your advice from now on - thanks for the warning ..... and I hope you get your laptop back

Seem to recall a similar sorry tale in early January and at first I thought this was the same one being rehashed. Sorry to hear about this and at least you'll be able to get a replacement PC which is no compensation for all the work you've lost.

Death penalty is the best option for these criminals. Whether it's carried out by the courts or you the victim, I don't mind which. Preferably the latter.

Death penalty is the best option for these criminals. Whether it's carried out by the courts or you the victim, I don't mind which. Preferably the latter.

Wow, that's got to be the winner of this years deferred gratification post award.

Wow, that's got to be the winner of this years deferred gratification post award.

Can we refer him/her to the forum psychiatric unit?

Sorry to hear about this. Similar thing happend to me. They came in the kitchen and took stuff off the table. I spent hours looking or the CD front for the car, not realising until days later it had been nicked. Some people are so brazen. Now I try to lock stuff away if I am not about and I lock doors 1f there is no-one downstairs.

There should be a website somewhere that informs people where the crime hotspots are.

Are you sure it was thieves who took it?

Seriously though, really sorry. It's awful when you lose days worth of work. I am a backup freak these days. I back up every half day ever since I got the blue screen of death a year or so ago.

Death penalty is the best option for these criminals. Whether it's carried out by the courts or you the victim, I don't mind which. Preferably the latter.

It'd probably be death by old age in this case.:hihi:

Been there had that! Can sympathise with you. The anger, frustration does subside, but you must LEARN from the theft.

If you use your computer for work (or it has valueble documents) it may well be worth looking into one of these programs that runs in the background. They are loaded up & you pay a small subsciption, but should your laptop be stolen, when the burglar or new 'owner of stolen goods' connects it to the internet it locates it's position via the I.P address & tells the program maker of it's location. They inform the police who 'nick' the burglar or 'purchaser of stolen goods' who have your property.

Suppose you have to assess the value of the stuff on the hard drive. Some people have stuff on their computers worth more than the computer itself.