A ruthless burglar who has been routinely stealing fruit and vegetables from a crippled pensioner’s garden is now apprehended.
Charles Nippard, 86, had noticed this summer’s abundant harvest of potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, and strawberries in his front garden dwindling.
Before a civic-minded neighbour saw a woman enter the Poole, Dorset garden and flee with tomatoes, the handicapped retiree had blamed it on the heat.
They were able to capture a picture of the middle-aged woman walking away while holding broken-off vines filled with green tomatoes in both hands.
And based on pictures of her meals that she’s shared on Facebook, it appears that the woman has been using her ill-gotten cash to prepare delectable salads.
The green-fingered bandit, according to Mr. Nippard and his daughter Derri-Anne Beck, has helped herself to many kilos of their tomatoes.
Additionally, they thought she was to blame for the recent loss of about 40 red onions that they had placed on a rack to dry in the sun.
The 52-year-old Mrs. Beck shared the image on social media in the hopes that it would make the offender desist.
People who shared the same name as the primary suspect responded to her in a number of private messages.
In an attempt to get the woman to stop, Mrs. Beck indicated that calling the police would be pointless.
She claimed: “She has stolen approximately 40 red onions and devastated about half the tomatoes.”
I assist my father with raising all the seedlings on his windowsills, planting them in raised beds, caring for them, and harvesting them.
He has been doing it for a long time.
Then, approximately two weeks ago, I saw that there weren’t as many tomato plants on the ground as there supposed to be.
But I simply attributed it to the heat.
Then a neighbour arrived and revealed that she had captured a picture of a woman stealing our tomatoes on her phone while looking out of her window.
You can clearly see this woman leaving our garden while holding a handful of green tomatoes in each hand.
Several people have given us the same name as the person in the picture. Her identity is fairly evident. She has probably been taking these for several weeks.
You might question, “Are those our tomatoes?” when you see multiple images of several side salads she has prepared for main meals on her Facebook page.
“The police are powerless to help.” Simply said, it is annoying. We invest a lot of