Thieves return on Boxing Day after stealing items on Christmas Day
Thieves who raided a Whangarei house on Christmas Day were not content with the big bags of electrical loot they hauled away.
They returned on Boxing Day, possibly to take a large flat-screen television set they had left behind the previous day because it was too big for them to carry.
The woman who lives at the house on Western Hills Drive with her husband and their two children aged under two said they had been robbed twice about three or four years ago and had since installed deadbolts on doors and windows and an external siren burglar alarm.
But on Christmas Day, they returned from a family lunch at Kerikeri to find a window on their home's rear door had been broken to gain entry, the burglar alarm had gone off, and thieves had made off with electrical goods and clothes.