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Police warn burglary victim over ‘no questions asked’ flyer
A RADIOLOGIST has been fighting what he calls a “ridiculous battle” with police over the investigation of a break-in to his Belsize house on New Year’s Eve.
As two weeks passed without police visiting his house, Dr Otto Chan, 50, decided to act.
The former orthopaedic radiologist at the Royal London Hospital was desperate to recover stolen laptops containing ten years’ of family photographs and his life’s work as a lecturer, so he posted signs around his neighbourhood inviting thieves to “name their price” for their return with “no questions asked”.
Detectives, who had still not called him to investigate the burglary of his Fellows Road home, warned him the posters broke the law.
“My wife got a phone call from a detective who said ‘we’ve seen the notices you’ve put up and they’re illegal’,” Dr Chan told the New Journal. “‘Your husband is encouraging the purchase of stolen goods’.”
The stolen goods- which include all his children’s Christmas presents, taken from beneath the tree had still not been recovered yesterday (Wednesday).
Dr Chan said: “I don’t have anything against individual detectives. This is an example of what happens when big institutions in this country make a mistake – they dig-in and find someone else (to blame).” A police spokeswoman said: “It is unfortunate that, with the best intentions, people use their own posters appealing for the return of the property using the phrase ‘no questions will be asked’. This breaches the law and when we explained this, the family said they would remove them.”
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