Just one in 30 Christmas Day burglaries ends in prosecution!

THIEVES who raid homes on Christmas Day are likely to get away with it, shocking figures have revealed.

- BY MATTHEW DAVIS

Just one in 30 burglaries carried out on the big day last year ended in arrest and prosecution, it was said.

That is about two-thirds the rate for the year as a whole, where the proportion of burglaries that end with a court appearance is around 5%.

The crime figures for last Christmas Day, uncovered in a Freedom of Information

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survey, show police forces logged almost 236 house burglaries on the day.

Of these, just eight ended with the culprit caught and charged.

Kevin Moore, a retired detective chief superintendent at Sussex Police and a former head of CID, said: “A burglary of a family home at any time is devastating. However, at Christmas time it always seems worse.