A burglar who stole a large number of products from a resident’s house has used facebook to taunt her about his stealing spree. After stealing her laptop, along with a games console and phone, he logged into facebook using her account username and password saved in the browser memory, and sent her a message.
Hove resident Victoria Richardson signed into her facebook account shortly after the robbery occurred and found the message, named “on my new laptop”, sitting in her inbox. In the taunting email he bragged about the items he’d stolen from her saying “Listening to music on my new phone feels so good.” He added “I have the laptop, phones ok but a bit scratched it’ll do, tv was rubbish so I left it, ds was a bonus, now to the porn shop, thankyou toshiba is my favourite make.”
Speaking of the incident, a Sussex police spokesperson said “Being burgled is traumatic enough for any family but for the culprit to apparently use their stolen possessions to publicly gloat over the crime is a sinister twist. As with all burglaries we are taking the matter seriously and a thorough investigation is under way to bring this offender to justice.”
Speaking of the message and associated taunting, Ms Richardson explained “I felt very spooked. I have never felt like that before. It felt like they were rubbing my nose in it. They have been in your physical space, and then they are in your online space. My friends could all see what they were writing so it was really degrading. It is bad enough being robbed in the first place but this invasion of my privacy has made it doubly painful.”
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i think that in order to reduce house burglarys then all houses should have burglar alarms and the goverment should pay for them all including the fitting