A burglar taunted his victims by logging onto their Facebook page and gloating over the crime. The crook said he planned to pawn their belongings and signed off with “regards, your nighttime burglar”.
Victoria Richardson, 42, whose web page was hijacked the day after the break-in, said the invasion of privacy made the crime doubly painful. The home she shares with her husband Dan, 35, and their children in Marine Avenue, Hove, was raided between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. An iPhone, a Nintendo DS games console, a handbag containing a purse, cash and debit cards and a black Toshiba laptop were all stolen.
The next day someone logged on to the social networking website Facebook under Mrs Richardson’s profile and started leaving illiterate taunts - claiming they had left the television behind because it was not good enough for them.
One read: “on my new laptop”. The next said: “listening to music on my new phone feels so good.” They then wrote: “i have the laptop , phones ok but a bit scratched itll do tv was rubbish so i left it ,ds was a bonuss now to the porn shop i gooo , thankyou toshiba is my favourate make”. The final note read: “regards your nighttime burglar”.
Mrs Richardson, 42, said: “I felt very spooked. I have never felt like that before. It felt like they were rubbing my nose in it. They have been in your physical space, and then they are in your online space.”
She urged people with computers to protect them with passwords and make sure they do not stay permanently logged in so they do not fall victim to similar invasions of privacy.
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