Day nine since our burglary, which I described here last Friday, and the fallout continues. All week, we've been slamming stable doors like crazy: changing the locks; ordering a video doorbell; bolting windows and doors, top and bottom, then neurotically checking and re-checking them before bed; waking in the small hours, suddenly alert, with hearts thumping, at the faintest imagined …
Sometime in the early hours of Wednesday morning, while we were asleep upstairs, an intruder entered our house and grabbed what he could lay his hands on.. Clearly, it was a quick in-and-out job, which couldn’t have lasted much more than five minutes. Only 3.9 per cent of burglaries result in a charge, while in 48 per cent of neighbourhoods …
