A real life Artful Dodger: 'Fagin' ギャング(団) 帳消しにする a pensioner's car by dropping a boy through the SUNROOF before making off with just a rain jacket

  • Pensioners were astonished to see young ギャング(団) break into their car on CCTV
  • (映画の)フィート数 shows ギャング(団) trying to open the door before boy goes in through sunroof
  • Thieves only stole a coat, but the car has been written-off by the 損失

A grandmother has 攻撃する,衝突する out at the 'Fagin's ギャング(団)' of young louts who wrote off her car by lowering a youngster through the sunroof to steal 所持品 inside.

Gloria Thorpe, 72, and husband Ken, 85, were shocked when they 見解(をとる)d CCTV of the 出来事/事件 outside their home in Harwich, Essex.

(映画の)フィート数 shows the young ギャング(団) 試みる/企てるing to 軍隊 open the car's door, before turning their attention to the sunroof.

They 結局 break it open and one of the boys lowers himself through into the car to open the car doors for the others.

にもかかわらず 令状ing off the car with the break-in, the thieves only escaped with Korean War 退役軍人 Mr Thorpe's rain jacket - 価値(がある) just a few 続けざまに猛撃するs.

A young gang managed to open the sunroof on a pensioner's car a lower a boy in to steal

A young ギャング(団) managed to open the sunroof on a pensioner's car a lower a boy in to steal

Grandmother-of-three Mrs Thorpe said: 'I could not believe what I was seeing when I watched the CCTV 支援する.

'I don't think the boys can be a day older than seven.

'What on earth are their parents thinking? They should know what their children are up to and where they are.

'I think the youngsters need a damn good thrashing for what they've done.

'The little one who 減少(する)s in through the sunroof looks like he could be the Artful Dodger - what is the world coming to when we have Fagin's ギャング(団)s in this day and age?'

The Saxo was broken into at about 3.30pm on Saturday, but the retired couple were unaware of the 損失 until the に引き続いて day when Mrs Thorpe spotted the 損失d car door.

The child gang tried to break open the?Citroen Saxo's door before going through the top

The child ギャング(団) tried to break open the?Citroen Saxo's door before going through the 最高の,を越す

CCTV footage shot on the couple's CCTV shows the boy lowering himself into their car

CCTV (映画の)フィート数 発射 on the couple's CCTV shows the boy lowering himself into their car

Mrs Thorpe says she was speechless when she watched 支援する her CCTV on her television and saw the youngsters 試みる/企てるing their (警察の)手入れ,急襲.

Mrs Thorpe 追加するd: 'Ken has a very 貧しく foot at the moment so we 猛烈に need the car to get 支援する and 前へ/外へ to the hospital.

'It really is our lifeline - it's only 価値(がある) £500, if that, but to us it really is invaluable and that's what these youngsters just don't ever think about.

'They must have thought there was some money in there but there wasn't.'

Mrs Thorpe has two children and three grandchildren and is a retired office and care 労働者. Retired Mr Thorpe served with the 王室の Engineers for nearly a 10年間.

Mrs Thorpe says the car is a write-off due to the damage done during the incident

Mrs Thorpe says the car is a 令状-off 予定 to the 損失 done during the 出来事/事件

The gang only escaped with a coat, but the loss of the car will hugely impact the couple's lives

The ギャング(団) only escaped with a coat, but the loss of the car will hugely 衝撃 the couple's lives

A Facebook page has already been 始める,決める up with 肉親,親類d-hearted 居住(者)s 寄付するing money to help get the S-登録 car 支援する on the roads.

Essex Police are 調査/捜査するing the 窃盗 which took place at 3.30pm on Saturday and 控訴,上告ing for anyone with (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) to come 今後.

A 法廷のs officer has been to the couple's ground 床に打ち倒す flat but was unable to 回復する any 指紋s. The oldest member of the ギャング(団), thought to be no older than 20, was spotted on CCTV using his coat to 肘 the 乗り物's door shut in a 企て,努力,提案 to remain undetected.

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