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Crime wave!
It’s less than four miles long and a mile wide, has a population of just 26 and no police station, but the tiny island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides is in the middle of an unexpected crime wave.
The latest crime figures won’t make Police Scotland worry too much though; thieves struck the community shop in the first theft on the remote island in decades.
The volunteer-run shop has been run on an “honesty basis” for four years, allowing the few locals, passing fisherman and kayakers to leave cash in exchange for groceries.
However the crime rate on the island soared from zero on Friday when thieves struck, emptying the shelves of sweet, biscuits, coffee, toiletries, batteries and six wool hats, that had been hand-knitted by shop manager Julie McCabe.
The last time a theft was reported on Canna is believed to have been in 1960s, when a carved wooden plated was stolen from Rhu Church. That case was never solved, but police say crime on the island is “rare”.
Ms McCabe said: “I am absolutely floored that someone has been in and did that to our community… We are going to have to consider locking the door at night.
Officers from the mainland have had to be drafted in to investigate the crime and want to speak to anyone who docked at Canna pier on Friday night. The island’s community shop is left open around the clock so that sailors, fisherman and visiting kayakers can use the free wi-fi and help themselves to a cup of tea or coffee.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...a-hit-by-first-crime-in-decades-10323508.html
It’s less than four miles long and a mile wide, has a population of just 26 and no police station, but the tiny island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides is in the middle of an unexpected crime wave.
The latest crime figures won’t make Police Scotland worry too much though; thieves struck the community shop in the first theft on the remote island in decades.
The volunteer-run shop has been run on an “honesty basis” for four years, allowing the few locals, passing fisherman and kayakers to leave cash in exchange for groceries.
However the crime rate on the island soared from zero on Friday when thieves struck, emptying the shelves of sweet, biscuits, coffee, toiletries, batteries and six wool hats, that had been hand-knitted by shop manager Julie McCabe.
The last time a theft was reported on Canna is believed to have been in 1960s, when a carved wooden plated was stolen from Rhu Church. That case was never solved, but police say crime on the island is “rare”.
Ms McCabe said: “I am absolutely floored that someone has been in and did that to our community… We are going to have to consider locking the door at night.
Officers from the mainland have had to be drafted in to investigate the crime and want to speak to anyone who docked at Canna pier on Friday night. The island’s community shop is left open around the clock so that sailors, fisherman and visiting kayakers can use the free wi-fi and help themselves to a cup of tea or coffee.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...a-hit-by-first-crime-in-decades-10323508.html
