letterkenny robbery

enniscorthy

might be of interest/help regards brian

" Heartbroken Jessica has present from Santa stolen "



Friday January 07 2011

A LITTLE girl's heart has been broken because the buggy she got as a present from Santa was stolen.

Heartless thieves took the red Challenger buggy from the back garden of the home of seven-year-old Jessica Peoples in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, on Sunday night.
Yesterday, her father Michael made an emotional appeal for the return of the motorised buggy, which has personalised licence plates.

He has even offered a cash reward for information that might lead to the return of the buggy, which is worth €1,800.
"It's not even about the money now. It's the fact that it would mean so much to Jessica. Her heart is broken but it would mean the world to get the buggy back," he said.

Designed for off-road sport, the buggy can reach speeds of up to 25mph.

Thieves gained entry to the back garden of the Peoples' home, at Lismonaghan in Letterkenny. They took the buggy and an 8x4 builders' steel trailer, on which it was mounted.
Mr Peoples said he was in tears when he had to wake his daughter on Monday morning to tell her the buggy had gone.

"The tears welled up in her eyes. She said, 'People can't take Santa's presents away,'" he said.

Mr Peoples estimates that it would have taken at least two men to remove the trailer and buggy from the back as his jeep was blocking the entrance.

"Whoever took it knew well it was a present but obviously didn't care. How they can do something like this to a child is beyond me," he said.

Thieves
Since opening the present with its pink 'Jessica 1' licence plates on Christmas morning, the little girl had scarcely stopped playing with it.

On the question of safety, Mr Peoples, a jet-ski enthusiast, said Jessica never went faster than walking speed in it.
He also revealed that he had not got around to insuring the vehicle.
Since the theft, he said Jessica had become nervous in her own home.

"She is going around the house at night with a little torch, making sure everything is locked up. That's a terrible way for a seven-year-old to be thinking. I hope this doesn't affect her down the line," he said.

Gardai are viewing CCTV footage of the area in a bid to track down the thieves.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/heartbroken-jessica-has-present-from-santa-stolen-2487640.html

shame on the culprits

Senna

Read this in the papers and seen signs in the local shop, terrible for the wee girl to lose her present from Santa.
But i only wish i got €1800 presents from Santa when i was a kid, no recession in that house.

nmg_ire

The amount of robberies in this town is terrible, urge everyone to be the curtain twitcher and try and catch the scum that is at it. My neighbours where robbed before xmas and someone was robbed xmas day.

Pique

Are they (Gardai/family) looking into <SNIP>
May have no connection to their buggy (I'd ignore the '2 yrs old' bit. If it was nicked, and was for sale, advertising it as 'new' is a bit of a no-no), but it's worth checking the classifieds for things like this.

Mind you, it's probably found a home in the UK by now, unfortunately.

muffler

Pique I have removed the link because (a) The ad you linked to was placed on 1st January and the buggy wasn't stole until the 2nd January so its definitely not the same one. (b) Whether it was or wasn't the same buggy those details shouldn't be posted on a discussion forum but should be passed directly to the Gardai.

mrmac

Pique - the one in that link was a single seater, but there's a picture of the stolen one in the DP & DN, and it appears to be a two seater.

Keep those eyes open though, and as muffler pointed out, pass the details of ANY suspicious items onto the Gardai.

Mint Sauce

enniscorthy wrote: »

"She is going around the house at night with a little torch, making sure everything is locked up. That's a terrible way for a seven-year-old to be thinking. I hope this doesn't affect her down the line," he said.

It was this line that got me, poor little thing. Theres no way that a 7 year should have to think or worry like that.

Carrickman

irish-stew wrote: »

It was this line that got me, poor little thing. Theres no way that a 7 year should have to think or worry like that.

Terrible thing to happen the poor we thing, the dogs on the streets know what people are at this but due to this being such a PC county we cant mention them. My nephew had his bike stolen a few years back in Letterkenny and the people who took it were mocking him and my sister and making treats if she went to the gards they make me sick and know they can get away with it.