A couple has been left devastated after burglars broke into their home in Eston while they were away on holiday - stealing precious keepsakes and thousands of pounds of electrical goods.
The victims’ black Peugeot 206 car was also stolen and found burnt out the following day on Heatherfields Road, also having had items taken from within it.
The burglary, which took place at the home of a couple and their six-year-old boy on Station Road, is believed to have taken place overnight from Sunday, August 24, into Monday, August 25.
The householder said it was a “massive shock” to come home from holiday to see their home boarded up by police and their belongings strewn all over.
“Every single drawer and every single cupboard was open,” said the 44-year-old mum-of-three. The police rang them while on holiday to inform them of the crime.
“To go on our one holiday a year that we have spent all year saving up for and to come home to the complete devastation of being violated, it’s awful.”
Items including sentimental jewellery, laptops containing precious photographs and electrical items including a 42” television, a camera, camcorder, an Xbox, two mobile phones, two portable DVD players, cash and kitchen items such as a slow cooker and a steam cleaner were stolen as well as a wallet containing a bank card. Money from the son’s money box was also taken.
Items of jewellery taken included a gold bracelet inscribed with the word “babette”, a silver Pandora bracelet with charms and a white gold ring.
Also taken was a box containing a set of silver earrings, a ring and necklace in a leaf shape with brown and diamond stones.
“The material things can be replaced, but it’s the personal items - my photographs of my son as a baby and jewellery that had been given to me, that’s what matters the most to me,” she added.
“My aunt died two years ago and she gave me the Babette bracelet which I was so proud to wear and the charms on my bracelet had been bought by my older son and daughter.”
Anyone who may have information regarding the burglary or anyone who may know the whereabouts of any of the items mentioned is asked to contact Detective Constable Lindsay Forbes, from Redcar and Cleveland volume crime team, on the non-emergency 101 number or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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