Scone shop break-in

Jul 8 2008

THIEVES with a craving for cigarettes and cash broke in to the Spar shop on Scone’s Abbey Road.

A whopping 4000 cigarettes and a three-figure sum of money were stolen from the shop between 9pm on Thursday and 5.10am on Friday.

POLICE are investigating a break-in to a flat accessed from a common close at the Caledonian Road end of Perth’s High Street.

Sometime between 6.30pm on Thursday and 11.45am on Friday the High Street flat was broken into and among the items stolen was a Playstation, DVD player, games and a three-figure sum of money.

CRIMINALS were attracted to the Game Fair in Scone at the weekend.

Four solid-bronze sculptures, worth a total of £1300, were stolen from a display tent in the grounds overnight from Friday into Saturday.

One statue was of a black grouse standing on a rock and weighted in at a whopping 10 kilos, another sculpture stolen was of a peregrine falcon in flight - both had the name Alan Glasby engraved on the base.

Also stolen was a four-kilo grouse-on-a-rock sculpture and a one-kilo godwit cast standing on one leg.

POLICE are appealing for a witness to an incident at a bus-stop on Letham Road at the weekend.

At 1.30pm on Saturday a boy engaged inappropriately with a 15-year-old girl. A woman at the bus-stop spoke with the girl’s father when he arrived. Police would like to trace the woman at the bus-stop.

EFFORTS were made to break into a home in St Fillans while the householder was on holiday.

Sometime between June 30 and Sunday, June 6, an unsuccessful attempt was made to enter the house and the person responsible had to leave empty handed.

AND A home on Rattray’s Davie Park was broken into sometime between June 27 and Sunday, July 6, while the family were on holiday.

Among the items stolen were two televisions, a Nintendo Wii and games.