AIR RAID LOOTING
SCOTLAND YARD ACTIVE Rec. 8.50 p.m. London, Sept. 27. Twenty-five cases of stealing from bombed premises have been heard" in London courts, including some classed as looting which is a capital charge under the defence regulations. Sentences ranged up to three months' hard labour. Three cases were committed for -.trial. A member of the A.R.P. organisation was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a cigarette case from a woman killed by a bomb. Sixteen demolition workers were sentenced to sentences from a fortnighf to three months's imprisonment for stealing a tobacconist's stock. A soldier was sentenced for stuffing his pockets with six bottles of wine after helping police to control crowds outside a bombed house. Scotland Yard has organised antilooting detective squads in conjunction with flying squads. Looters tour bombed areas immediately after the all clear. Another Scotland Yard problem is organised meat stealing for resale at cut prices. Six carcases disappeared from one market on one day. f ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 7
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