When he first met them, they were already seasoned twoccers, canny burglars and advanced standard drivers. |
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In France, Britons are warned to look out for bag-snatchers, muggers, burglars and pickpockets, all targeting tourists. |
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They are burglars, dealers, vandals, thugs, muggers, arsonists, a menace to society. |
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Martin, who wept as he gave evidence, denied having booby-trapped the house or having lain in wait for the burglars. |
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But the burglars have often been described as in their late teens or early 20s, of smart appearance and well spoken with a local accent. |
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Would-be burglars climbed on to the flat roof of the church and unscrewed the plastic skylight cover. |
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According to the report, burglars were as likely to call a snow day as the rest of us. |
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A human rights solicitor said that burglars had the same human rights as upstanding members of the community. |
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Police believe the burglars broke in with the intention of stealing stock, but were probably scared off. |
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The house was unoccupied at the time of the break-in and the burglars gained entry by forcing open the front door. |
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This will no doubt prompt burglars to begin break-ins by stealing the security camera. |
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Business owners in Darwen have been warned to be on their guard after a spate of break-ins where burglars removed skylights and windows. |
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The 35-year-old interior decorator said the burglars had found a jewellery box in his bedroom which he had forgotten to put back in a bank vault. |
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After ransacking the vestry and attempting to tear a steel donation box from the wall the burglars left empty-handed. |
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The burglars got into the rear yard of a neighbouring property and cut a hole in a fence through to the back yard of Hussey and Greenhow. |
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Robbers, burglars and drugs dealers will be first to fall under the spotlight, they said. |
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Luckily they woke up when the window shattered, so the burglars got away empty handed. |
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The crime spree has led victims from across the town to lose thousands of pounds in cash after being conned by burglars. |
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Security footage of young burglars raiding a Cotswold church is being examined by police. |
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Police are to target crime hotspots in the Keighley division to purge the streets of robbers and burglars. |
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Going soft on burglars and car thieves, she added, was a slap in the face for their victims. |
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A pioneering scheme to gate off alleys to burglars and thieves could be on its way to parts of central York. |
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Please be warned that a group or groups of burglars and thieves are in the area. |
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Many burglars commit dozens, or even hundreds, of crimes before they're caught. |
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He said she refused to accept her son had killed his wife and still believed the couple had been murdered by burglars. |
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On last night's Question Time a girl said that all burglars and petty criminals should be shot. |
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The police time now dedicated to the drug trade would be freed up to catch burglars, rapists and murderers. |
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Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state. |
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Householders who kill burglars in the heat of the moment will not face prosecution, the Director of Public Prosecutions pledged yesterday. |
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The burglars escaped with a hoard of limited edition bone china, porcelain and pottery collectables leaving behind only muddy footprints. |
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What she doesn't know is what the burglars are after is also in the panic room. |
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As it turns out, their presence in the panic room complicates matters for the burglars. |
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Police had sent Christmas cards to many of Oldham's most prolific burglars warning them to spend the festive period at home. |
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Just how far should a householder go in defending their property against burglars? |
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She acted, she said, after incidents in the Vale of York where householders were confronted by burglars. |
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Sometimes he wondered if years of isolation made her paranoid of burglars, even when she was expecting her own son to visit. |
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Police who disturbed a pair of burglars had their patrol car rammed three times as the men tried to get away, a court heard. |
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Mrs Wheeler said she thought the noise made by the burglars was the bad weather or birds pecking on the roof. |
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I cannot believe that more than a tiny percentage are activated by burglars. |
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The president's proposal is about as fangless as telling burglars that they have to give the loot back if they get caught. |
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But by warning people that burglars are on the prowl, it is hoped the criminals will not be able to take advantage of any easy pickings. |
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Each of the burglars represents an aspect of the criminal subconscious, crime as a composition of elements. |
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Callous burglars have left an elderly couple heartbroken after they stole irreplaceable jewellery while they were away on holiday. |
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Stained glass windows at the church were damaged after burglars forced their way in through them in three previous burglaries. |
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Labour and their cronies of do-gooders now believe that first and second time burglars should not be sent to jail. |
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Security-shy residents are allowing themselves to become easy prey for burglars. |
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Two prolific burglars who preyed on elderly people by claiming to be looking for a lost kitten have been jailed. |
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Police are hunting for a gang of burglars who are targeting elderly people in west Wiltshire. |
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Officers on the Operation Delta squad have access to the latest computer technology to hunt for burglars. |
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Officers say most burglars are heroin or crack addicts who need cash to feed their drug habits. |
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The owner of a mail order lingerie business which was ransacked by burglars has spoken of her disgust at the intruders. |
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Four months later, on the night of her 83rd birthday, burglars ransacked her bedroom as she slept heavily after taking a sleeping tablet. |
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The burglars used a nearby ladder to climb onto a flat roof before forcing open a window. |
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It means burglars tend to avoid the area and it also reassures the residents, reducing fear of crime. |
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It will target all criminals, from burglars and street robbers to drug dealers, car criminals and receivers of stolen goods. |
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The gang of burglars confessed to targeting homes of foreigners and Thais alike, mainly targeting the more prosperous working girls. |
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A young Ilkley landlord is recovering from a terrifying ordeal in which he was ambushed by two armed burglars. |
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My other alarm system is still functioning though, so don't think about breaking in burglars. |
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A little girl's Christmas is in ruins after burglars broke into a house and stole her presents. |
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He actually lay in wait for burglars and shot them as a deliberate act, even though they were about to scarper. |
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In France, Britons are warned to look out for bag snatchers, muggers, burglars and pickpockets, all targeting tourists. |
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My husband has managed to frighten away burglars on two occasions in the past three years. |
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A recent report showed that three quarters of burglars freed from prison are caught committing more crime within two years. |
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The burglars usually pose as workers for utility services, such as water, gas or electricity and target elderly householders. |
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It is thought the burglars were stealing to order as they left behind scores of instruments also worth thousands of pounds. |
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Tiny microchips are making people on a huge estate feel more secure by putting burglars off raiding their homes. |
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The burglars also stole many personal belongings that Cilla will never be able to replace. |
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The medals, including a CBE and DSO, were found in Harrow, north London, among a haul of items stolen by burglars. |
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A woman was ordered into her basement by two burglars who left her shut away whilst they looted her Whitton home last Friday evening. |
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He had in fact suggested several times that it might be necessary to pay blackmail to silence the burglars who broke into party headquarters. |
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There is, as it turns out, absolutely nothing to prove that the burglars were ever in the house. |
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Police in Trowbridge are warning retailers to stop leaving petty cash in their stores overnight after burglars broke into a town centre hairdressers. |
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However, unknown to her friends and neighbours, she was running a seaside syndicate of burglars who stole to order and used her shop to fence the goods. |
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This is giving a clear green light to burglars to commit this crime as they are more than likely to get a very light sentence or be put on a drug rehab programme. |
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If I was a copper, which thankfully I am not, I'd be in despair at the attitude of senior Law Lords who are encouraging the idea that burglars should no longer be locked up. |
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In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol. |
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The two cat burglars were still standing in front of the row of apartments holding a large bag when police arrived and local residents identified them as the burglars. |
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Two burglars were today behind bars after a passing motorist tracked them through the streets of York and put police on their tail, the city's crown court heard. |
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It was through a PPA survey on life in the area that householders' fears over back alleys being used by burglars and other undesirables were voiced, say councillors. |
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Your fingertips contain oil, which is why you leave fingerprints on surfaces when you touch them, and why cat burglars always wear gloves in the movies. |
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The burglars also took a child's motorbike scrambler, a khaki coloured container with 25 litres of red diesel and numerous bottles of gin, vodka and liqueurs. |
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The burglars cut through metal bars on a window at the rear of the store. |
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Far from being the pristine oasis of calm portrayed in magazines, my house still looks as if it's been done over by a gang of particularly thorough burglars. |
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Such information was priceless for opportunist burglars, he added. |
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The flat looks rather like it has been ransacked by disgruntled burglars. |
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Well, the two burglars got away with the jewels but not without a fight. |
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So it would be nice if we could talk less about householders overstepping the mark when attacking burglars, and more about how to stop burglars being there in the first place. |
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Instead, it seems to be packed with incompetents who make the Watergate burglars look like lex Luthor. |
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We hope that by cutting hedgerows we will make ginnels safer and make it more difficult for burglars to work without the cover that overgrown hedges provide. |
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Their rejection comes despite plans in England, unveiled last week, to toughen the law, giving householders the right to take on burglars without fear of prosecution. |
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Instead he neglected his duty and the burglars got away with those crimes. |
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A Vietnam war widow has made an emotional appeal for help after burglars stole her late husband's medals and the birth certificate of their dead baby daughter. |
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The grey sports car was parked on Masonfield Crescent when burglars broke in to lift the keys and make their getaway in the early hours on Saturday. |
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After all, if committing murder in D.C. or burglarizing apartments in San Francisco meant losing one's freedom, there'd be far fewer killers and burglars. |
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Hundreds of DVDs, CDs and PlayStation games were stolen in the biggest raid on a west Wiltshire library in 20 years, with police at a loss to explain how the burglars got in. |
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Unlike the Media burglars, he revealed his identity soon after turning over the files he had copied. |
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So, Mark Felt was convicted of Cointelpro operations including countless break-ins, but he is now famous for blowing the whistle on another group of burglars. |
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The burglars made off with two 20-litre petrol cans and a welding machine. |
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The police have gone out and caught the recidivist burglars. |
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Police have warned householders not to leave easy pickings for burglars following a spate of crimes where property was stolen after windows and doors were left unlocked. |
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A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third. |
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These are the muggers and beater-uppers, and car thieves and burglars and rapists, assaulters, and so on. |
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Nearly 150 people in the region fell victim to opportunist burglars during May and the first week of June. |
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The iconic pratfall beat even Mr Bean, Laurel and Hardy, and the Home Alone burglars to the number one spot. |
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A pair of cat burglars run into trouble when they break into a home to get their hands on a priceless masterpiece. |
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One of the burglars got out and the victim pulled off his balaclava before he was threatened with a knife. |
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A HOUSEPROUD pooch is believed to have given burglars their marching orders after an attempted break-in at their owner's Dudley home. |
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On top of this came burglars, tiptoeingly creeping from room to room, hunting for her. |
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Police are appealing for information after the black throated monitor lizard was taken from a pet shop in Walton by burglars on Monday night. |
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A COLLECTABLE toy shop owner has criticised security at a refurbished market after cat burglars stole a large part of his stock. |
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The action is part of Operation Soundman, a forcewide initiative targeting burglars and thieves. |
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The rental scam Rogue house-sitters or even burglars show would-be tenants around properties that aren't even theirs after producing bogus adverts. |
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And she told how she blames the burglars for the death of cats Babe and Wabbit in the weeks after the break-in, which she says has broken her heart. |
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And she told today how she blames the burglars for the death of cats Babe and Wabbit in the weeks after the break-in, which she says has broken her heart. |
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Nine out of 10 cat burglars prefer Reebok Classic running shoes. |
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A MUSICIAN whose rare pounds 4,500 oboe was stolen after burglars crawled through a dog flap at her home has been reunited with her beloved instrument. |
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For decades now the 38,000 square miles aboriginal reserve has been sacrosanct from white intrusion. Gin burglars who sneak in looking for lubras are prosecuted. |
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The rest of the series is also full of surprises, with unlucky cat burglars, odd siblings living in a refrigerated gothic mansion, and a bloodsoaked actor's dressing room. |
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