Family in fear after burglars ransack home
Jewels, cash and car are taken in £20,000 raid
A FAMILY’S home was ransacked after burglars used a ladder from a children’s climbing frame to break in.
Around £20,000 of goods including sentimental jewellery, cash and a car were stolen in the burglary.
Homeowner Lindsey Farrelly, who has two young children, said: “They drew the curtains and emptied every single drawer and cupboard in the house. It looked like carnage.
“We want to make people aware that this can go on, we think they will have been watching us and doing their homework.”
AFAMILY’S home was ransacked after burglars ripped a ladder from a children’s climbing frame and used it to break in.
Lindsey Farrelly, 38, says around £20,000 of items – including sentimental jewellery – were stolen in the burglary.
A BMW 318i, cash, a limited edition Rotary watch, a necklace belonging to Lindsey’s late grandmother and a digital camera containing photos of a holiday in Belgium that had yet to be downloaded were among the items taken.
Crooks used the toy ladder to reach and disable an outside alarm box and once inside ripped the alarm control panel from the wall before submerging it in water and soil.
Lindsey, of Priestnall Road, Heaton Mersey, said: “It was very professional and they knew what they were doing.
“They drew the curtains and emptied every single drawer and cupboard in the house. It looked like carnage.
“It makes you feel unnerved. The children are traumatised, although we have tried to downplay things and me and my husband are not sleeping.
“It makes you angry that someone can come and take away what you have worked so hard for, words can’t say it enough.
“We want to make people aware that this can go on, we think they will have been watching us and doing their homework.
“We have now agreed to start a Neighbourhood Watch in the area.”
Lindsey, a business development manager, lives with her solicitor husband Philip, 53, and their two sons aged seven and 11.
The burglars had prised apart the family’s electric gates and then smashed a window to get in. Other items taken include cuff links, pens, a briefcase and perfume.
Lindsey and Philip had been on a night out in Heaton Moor while their children were staying with her mother when the burglary took place.
She says neighbours have told her of three other houses on the road that were broken into in December last year.
Lindsey added: “I’m just glad we could tidy things up a bit before our sons could see it as they would have been more devastated.”
A police spokesman confirmed officers were investigating the burglary. As yet no one has been arrested.
The break-in took place between 9.30pm and 11.45pm on Saturday April 25.
Anyone with information can call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
“It makes you feel unnerved”