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Bogus window cleaners raiding homes

nlnews@archant.co.uk
02 July 2009
POLICE are warning residents of burglars posing as window cleaners after a recent spate of thefts.

The latest burglary took place on June 10 in Wallace Road, Canonbury, where three men masquerading as window cleaners approached a 35-year-old woman at her door at around 5.35pm.

They claimed to have just finished cleaning her neighbours' windows and offered to give her a quote to clean hers.

The woman let them into the house to see the rear windows, they agreed on a price and then one man went to the kitchen to fill his bucket.

The victim sat down in the living room and realised that the three men had left and her purse containing £130 cash and various bank cards had been taken.

The men are all described as white males. The first is aged between 25 and 30, around 5ft 8ins tall with dark brown cropped hair and facial stubble. He was wearing a royal blue t-shirt and light grey jogging bottoms.

The second man was between 28 and 30, of large build. wearing a black t-shirt. The third man is about 40, 5ft 6ins tall, skinny with a thin drawn face, prominent ears and wispy brown hair coming down to the top of his ears.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Constable David Poole, in the Priority Crime Investigation Unit, on 020 7421 0220.

 
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