7:00am Thursday 29th July 2010
POLICE are linking a spate of eight burglaries and car thefts in Oxford in three days.
The first incident happened at 3.25am on Sunday, July 11, in Anemone Close, Greater Leys, where a house was broken into and a laptop was stolen.
The burglars stole the homeowner’s Ford Ka, but crashed the vehicle within yards of the property.
At 9pm on the same day, a Ford Fiesta was taken from Shepherds Hill, in Greater Leys, but it was recovered the next day.
Thieves stole an Xbox games console, games, DVD player and a 26in Panasonic flatscreen television from a wooden cabin in the garden of a house in Kersington Crescent between on Monday, July 12.
On the same day, between 1am and 1.30am, a Vauxhall Corsa was taken from Southfield Road in Cowley, but it was recovered at the scene of another car theft in Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, where thieves had stolen an Austin Metro, recovered 100 yards up the road.
A house in Appleford Drive in Abingdon was broken into on the same day. A television and a Citroen Picasso were taken.
The car was found abandoned in Greater Leys.
On Tuesday, July 13, thieves broke into a house in Firs Meadow, Greater Leys, stealing a laptop and a Nissan Almera, found burnt-out in Garsington.
The last incident was an attempted break-in to a property in Mistletoe Green, Greater Leys, on the same day.
Anyone with information should contact Det Sgt Andy Thompson on 08458 505505 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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