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Paving grab floors police
Station alerted by passer-by
BRAZEN thieves cordoned off a stretch of pavement before stealing £4,500 worth of valuable York stone as officers at a police station 100 yards away ignored a call from a concerned resident.
The thieves wore fluorescent jackets as they lifted about 30 flagstones at the fountain in Ajax Road, West Hampstead, next to Fortune Green, on Saturday morning.
Sharp-eyed resident Robin Collingwood, who reported the “workmen” to nearby West Hampstead police station, said: “We thought: why are they putting the stones onto the truck rather than stacking them at the side? I called the police. Three hours later police rang back and said: ‘Is that truck still there? Did you get the registration number?’ The station is 40 seconds walk away.
“Two weeks later we’ve got Tarmac instead of York stone. We’ve got police who can’t react, and the quality of the environment dips again.”
Fortune Green councillor Flick Rea, who also saw the “workmen”, said: “It takes my breath away that anybody could be so blatant and so mean.”
On Friday, police said they had no record of the theft.
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