It is said a criminal should never return to the scene of the crime - but no one seems to have told the brazen broccoli burglar of King's Somborne.
Four times in the last two weeks he has struck at Frank Fahy's vegetable patch.
On each occasion he has cut through protective netting and pinched a single head of broccoli.
The serial thieving is driving Mr Fahy, a 71-year-old retired professor, to distraction - not least because his efforts to deter the culprit have been fruitless.
He has raised the issue with the Hampshire village's parish council and local policeman Martin Benton is on the case. Mr Fahy, who serves on the parish council, said yesterday: 'The only way to get it stopped was to report it to the police.
'The net had been carefully cut over the broccoli and the heads taken. Each time one head was taken. They are each worth about 50p. It is a bit distressing.'
Hampshire Police said: 'We have recorded this as theft although we have no firm lines of inquiry.'
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