Burgled

My news this week is that we got burgled :( Our flat got broken into on Saturday night. We had friends round for dinner and some drinks and left the flat sometime after 7pm. My fiance's band had a gig so we went out early for sound check, went for a few drinks, watched the gig and were back by just after 11pm. We got home and I went straight into the kitchen-our plan was to get the rest of the bottle of wine we had started before we left and curl up on the sofa with a film. Needless to say that didn't happen! My partner went into the bedroom and immediately started shouting about what a mess it was in there, asking why I had felt the need to throw all my clothes around and get out the suitcases before we left....I hadn't. It took a good few minutes for the penny to drop that we had been broken into as there was no sign of damage to the front door-which was locked when we got home. We now believe that the robbers got into the building through an external window and carded our yale lock to gain entry before leaving by the front door!


We looked around to see what was missing and our worst fears were confirmed to note that the TV/DVD was gone along with both of our laptops, the xbox, and the ipad. They also emptied the contents of my handbag across the front room floor (i had left my bag at home and taken my purse and phone) and taken the bag, and pulled out all of our suitcase and taken mine-presumably to carry away all our things without attracting attention-basically they made it look as if they were guests or people going on holiday so that nobody from the flats below who saw them would question them.


It made me very angry to be stolen from but the worst thing for me wasn't the loss of our electrical items, it was the fact that some one had been in my house, in my personal space, touching my things. The items can be replaced and the locks and window have now been replaced but the knowledge that an intruder was in my home will stay with me for a very long time.