£4,000 worth of tools are stolen
Crooks raided a building site and made off with tools worth more than £4,000.
Staff at Taylor Wimpey’s Brooklands development in Linwood were alerted to the high-value theft when they returned the next morning to find thousands of pounds worth of equipment was missing.
Police say the oppportunistic crooks entered four separate plots on the 110-home development and nicked the tools, which included joinery, plumbing and building equupiment.
Officers are asking those who live nearby to get in touch if they remember seeing any suspicious vehicles in the area between 5pm on October 8 and 8am on October 9.
Crooks snatched £4,000 worth of tools from a Linwood housing development.
The sneak thieves targeted the Taylor Wimpey Brooklands development, breaking in to four of the plots to nab tools left by workers.
Police say thousands of pounds of equipment was stolen, including plumbing, joinery and building tools.
The theft was not discovered until the next morning on October 9 when the site manager returned to the development in Bridge of Weir Road.
The manager quickly discovered someone had entered a number of the unlocked housing plots and removed the expensive equipment.
Officers are now hunting those responsible for the theft, which they say happened between 5pm on October 8 and 8am on October 9.
They are calling for anyone who lives near the development to get in touch if they saw any vehicle enter or exit the site at a suspicious time.
Inspector Allan O’Hare, from Johnstone, Renfrew and the villages community policing team, said: “The items were not discovered to have been stolen until the site manager returned the next morning.”
“To steal the quantity of tools that have been taken from the site, the suspect would have needed a car or a van to transport the stolen goods.
“This would also have taken some time to load everything into the van.
“So we would ask if anyone spotted any vehicle at the site then please do get in touch with us.”
Work began on the housing development in May last year, which is situated on the site of the former Johnstone Hospital.
Some of the 110 three and four-bedroom homes on the site have been completed but work is still continuing to complete the new estate.
The homes will range from the £ 174,000 threebedroom semi- detached homes up to £ 297,000 for a four- bedroom detached home.
Express readers with information should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.