A have-a-go hero chased down three teenage yobs he caught stealing from a Nantwich care home for people with dementia.
Furious Greg Tudor was stunned when he saw the crooks leaping over the boundary wall of Clarendon Court care home, in Stapeley, carrying a stolen TV set.
Greg, who lives on the Cronkinson development in Stapeley, contacted the police then turned his car around to give chase as the teenagers tried to escape on bikes.
“I was on my way home from work travelling down Peter Destapleigh Way approaching the Cronkinson pub traffic lights when I saw them climbing over the metal fence with the TV,” he said.
“I immediately stopped the car, they noticed me so hid in the bushes.
“I turned my car around and travelled back towards the water garden lights to try and get some phone signal to call the police.
“I parked close to the lights and made the call and then noticed all 3 ride past me, one had the TV under his jumper!”
Greg then leapt into action, and managed to track one of the thieves down.
“I started to follow in my car and at this point they knew I was following them so they split up.
“Two went back onto Stapeley estate, the other down the old London Road. I caught up with this one, he didn’t have the TV but I spoke to him to exchange a few words I dare not repeat.
“It’s totally despicable what these boys did, to enter a building where elderly people are living and stealing from them.
“To see this sort of thing in person and so close to where I live has shocked me. I wish I could of done more to catch them.”
The incident happened at around 5pm yesterday (June 22).
All three were in their late teens, on bikes and wearing deer stalker type hats.
“I wanted to let your readers know to be extra vigilant as this was in broad daylight on the Stapeley estate,” added Greg.
Clarendon Court, on Beechwood Close, provides nursing, dementia nursing, residential, respite care and day care for up to 55 residents.
Staff at the home had been unaware of the sneak-in theft until Greg contacted them.
Home manager John Harding said: “It was a 23in television set, thankfully taken from a vacant room, so it was one of ours, not one that belonged to a resident.
“These were opportunistic thieves. They saw the patio doors open on a nice warm day and tried their luck.
“We’ve never had a problem before, so it is worrying to happen in a nice area like Stapeley.
“All I can say to Mr Tudor is thank you for having a go, good on him. I know what he saw made him very angry.”
Mr Harding said police had interviewed staff at the home, and officers are investigating.
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