Thieves cause carnage at hall (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

Thieves cause carnage at hall

3:48pm Monday 9th November 2009

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THIEVES caused hundreds of pounds of damage after smashing their way into a community hall in Jaywick.

They smashed windows and doors at the Golf Green Hall, in Golf Green Road, before stealing cash and charity collection boxes for the Poppy Appeal and the Little Havens Children’s Hospice.

They also took about £100 in cash and a petrol lawn mower valued at £270.

Ted Bullock, vice chairman of the Golf Green Hall Trust, said: “It's not so much the damage that bothers me, but it is disgusting to take the collection money – we can repair everything else.

“They broke the windows at the back of the hall and the windows of the library.

“What we are doing here is for the community, so there must be some absolute scum around here to do that.”

Trust chairman Sylvia Hobbs said the “disgusting” thieves kicked-in the doors of cupboards belonging to the Jaywick Lunch Club, the bingo club, the 60-plus club and the horse rescue club.

“They must have been looking for money because they didn’t take any equipment from the cupboards and stopped after breaking into the fourth one,” she said.

Nigel Brown, Tendring Council’s communications manager, said council staff were notified of the break-in at the hall, which is owned by the authority, on Sunday morning.

“Immediate measures were taken to have the windows board up as a temporary measure and the windows will be replaced,” he said.

The incident happened between midnight and 8.45am on Sunday.

Anyone with information bout the incident is asked to call Clacton police on 0300 333 4444.

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