Keep bikes safe alert after Rishton thefts

Keep bikes safe alert after Rishton thefts

4:42pm Friday 20th June 2014 in News By Michael Morrison, Hyndburn reporter

RESIDENTS in Rishton are being warned to keep their bikes more secure after a recent spate of thefts.

Thieves have smashed their way into sheds across the town, taking bikes worth up to 900.

Police appealed for help in catching the culprits after 13 bikes were stolen in the last three months.

PCSO Steve Charnley said: Theres been a large increase. Thieves are getting into peoples back gardens and breaking into sheds. It seems to be mainly bikes that are being taken Im only aware of one case where something else was taken, and that was golf clubs.

Ive asked officers from other towns and they dont seem to be having much of a problem, so its obviously somebody in Rishton.

It seems to happen overnight or very early on in the morning, and it does seem to be theyre targeting the high class estates.

One resident, Zoe Allder, said two bikes were stolen from her shed last month.

Speaking on Rishton First, a website set up for residents in the town, she said: We know who was responsible as my son saw them on the bikes on his way home from work. I informed police and gave them the names.

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