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Shameless thieving neighbour who was caught on camera stealing fruit and vegetables from 86-year-old disabled man’s garden

Charles Nippard grows a prolific crop of fruit and veg with the help of his daughter Derri-Anne.

‘The police won’t do anything. It is just irritating. We spend a lot of time and effort to grow our fruit and veg and people think they can just help themselves.’

By Adam Solomons
For Mailonline
24 July 2022

Excerpt:

Charles Nippard, 86, had seen his prolific front garden crop of potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and strawberries dwindle this summer.

The disabled pensioner had put it down to the hot weather – before a public-spirited neighbour spotted a woman enter the Poole, Dorset garden and run off with tomatoes.

They managed to take a photo of the middle-aged woman leaving, holding broken-off vines laden with green tomatoes in both hands.

And judging by photos of her food posted on Facebook, it would appear the woman has been using her ill-gotten gains to make delicious-looking salads.

Mr Nippard and daughter Derri-Anne Beck reckon that the green-fingered thief has helped herself to several kilos’ worth of their tomatoes.

This also makes them think that she is responsible for the recent theft of approximately 40 red onions they had laid out of a rack to dry in the sun.

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