Police appeal after bird theft in St Helier (From This Is Local London)

Surrey Police appeal after 70 birds stolen from St Helier house

1:20pm Wednesday 27th January 2010 in News

Police are appealing for witnesses after around 70 Canaries and British Finches were stolen from the back garden of a house in St Helier.

The 44-year-old owner returned home on January 22 to find the front windows of the bird houses had been smashed and the birds stolen.

Police believe the birds were taken from two locked birdhouses, in Welbeck Road, between 11pm on January 21 and 8.30am the following day.

Robert Rudge, the owner of the birds, said: “They took every single one of my birds and they're probably worth about £4,000.

"I literally just got them in the bird houses on Tuesday and they were stolen on Thursday."

If you have any information about this theft or have been offered these birds please call PC Carol Godwin, of the St Helier Safer Neighbourhood Team, on 020 8649 3591 or alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Have you been offered any Canaries or British Finches recently? Call the newsdesk on 020 8330 9535