Thieving worker is caught red-handed
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Thieving worker is caught red-handed
INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE: Double-glazing fitter Steven Roberts is clearly shown on CCTV stealing a copper tank from Mark Hicks’s home in Streamside
Owner uses CCTV to record double-glazing fitter raiding his house By Shams Al-Shakarchi [email protected]
K College may be split: MP Page 9 VIGILANT: Homeowner Mark Hicks
A TONBRIDGE businessman used his own CCTV cameras to catch a thieving double-glazing fitter red-handed. Mark Hicks, of Streamside, hired Steven Roberts, 35, to carry out double glazing work in September. But after completing the work on behalf of Strood firm Supaglazing, Roberts loaded his branded van in broad daylight with £1,190 worth of the family’s possessions. Mr Hicks, 39, returned home that
afternoon to find a copper tank was missing from his garden. He told the Courier: “I thought ‘something’s not right here’. “I checked the CCTV and that’s when I found what had gone on.”
Unlocked The footage showed Roberts had waited for Mr Hicks’s wife Susie to leave the house, before going back in a few minutes later through a stable door he had left unlocked. The father of three of Frittenden Road, Wainscott, near Rochester, then carried the large tank across
the driveway and hauled it into his van, before returning twice more to grab other items. “I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s gone on,” Mr Hicks said. “My daughters, aged 10 and 13, are absolutely petrified. They feel very unsafe.” Roberts appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to plead guilty to stealing a camera lens, a copper cylinder and binoculars on September 28. The court heard Roberts, who had worked for the company for
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GUILTY PLEA: Steven Roberts
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Grandad’s new way to earn acrust Page 3
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Thieving worker is caught red-handed
INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE: Double-glazing fitter Steven Roberts is clearly shown on CCTV stealing a copper tank from Mark Hicks’s home in Streamside
Owner uses CCTV to record double-glazing fitter raiding his house By Shams Al-Shakarchi [email protected]
K College may be split: MP Page 9 VIGILANT: Homeowner Mark Hicks
A TONBRIDGE businessman used his own CCTV cameras to catch a thieving double-glazing fitter red-handed. Mark Hicks, of Streamside, hired Steven Roberts, 35, to carry out double glazing work in September. But after completing the work on behalf of Strood firm Supaglazing, Roberts loaded his branded van in broad daylight with £1,190 worth of the family’s possessions. Mr Hicks, 39, returned home that
afternoon to find a copper tank was missing from his garden. He told the Courier: “I thought ‘something’s not right here’. “I checked the CCTV and that’s when I found what had gone on.”
Unlocked The footage showed Roberts had waited for Mr Hicks’s wife Susie to leave the house, before going back in a few minutes later through a stable door he had left unlocked. The father of three of Frittenden Road, Wainscott, near Rochester, then carried the large tank across
the driveway and hauled it into his van, before returning twice more to grab other items. “I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s gone on,” Mr Hicks said. “My daughters, aged 10 and 13, are absolutely petrified. They feel very unsafe.” Roberts appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to plead guilty to stealing a camera lens, a copper cylinder and binoculars on September 28. The court heard Roberts, who had worked for the company for
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GUILTY PLEA: Steven Roberts
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