{"id":10441,"date":"2018-01-30T03:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2018-01-30T03:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:17:20","slug":"ex-soldier-raiding-houses-gunpoint-takes-1m-jewellery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/ex-soldier-raiding-houses-gunpoint-takes-1m-jewellery\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ex-soldier’ raiding houses at gunpoint takes \u00a31m jewellery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A highly-professional soldier with a “commanding nature” is believed to have carried out seven violent \u00a31m raids with military-style planning.<\/p>\n

The man stakes out expensive Home Counties properties and knows their exact layout and location of safes by the time he raids the homes, wielding a sawn-off shotgun, Surrey Police said<\/p>\n

He has taken jewellery, watches and “irreplaceable heirlooms”.<\/p>\n

Victim Susan Morris, 61, said: “He knew exactly how hard to hit me.”<\/p>\n

An appeal has now gone out from four police forces after raids across Berkshire, Kent, Surrey and Sussex between November 2014 and October 2017.<\/p>\n

Mrs Morris said the raider kept asking her for more jewellery during the raid in October at her home in Kingswood, Surrey.<\/p>\n

“He hit me three times on my face, it was very painful, I couldn’t believe the blows kept coming,” she said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Morris said at one point she could not get a ring and bracelet off, and added: “I actually thought ‘he’s going to cut my finger off’.”<\/p>\n

When her husband came home from work, he found her still tied up with cables and hiding in a bedroom.<\/p>\n

Describing the thief, she said: “I would say he spoke well, he had no accent, he didn’t have bad grammar, he’s an intelligent man, he knows how to assess the situation and carry this out.”<\/p>\n

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Surrey Police said the burglar focuses on jewellery<\/span><\/figcaption>
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Police believe the burglar could be ex-military because of his levels of preparation, and his “well-spoken, intelligent” language and manner, but they have said he could be a current member of the armed forces or law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Det Insp Dee Fielding, from Surrey Police, said: “We do not believe this to be the work of an opportunist burglar, but someone who has specialist knowledge and skills, possibly ex forces or from a similar background.”<\/p>\n

Officers said he operates alone, speaks little, threatens to kill people and their dogs and is “incredibly decisive”.<\/p>\n

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Valuables worth more than \u00a31m have been taken from each property<\/span><\/figcaption>
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On each occasion, the man has used “unnecessary levels of violence”, police said.<\/p>\n

Det Insp Fielding said the raids have occurred about once every six months, possibly as the offender needed money.<\/p>\n

She said that whereas most people would need two hands to use a cable tie, this man is able to tie people up using one hand even while they are struggling.<\/p>\n

The man is thought to have got into houses before the raids to better understand the layout, and has been seen on CCTV staking out targets.<\/p>\n

Police say they are looking for someone who may seem to have money disproportionate to their job, and might be travelling or away for long periods of time.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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