Church raider may have been in drink
MARIA Elcock was frowning. What's that doing here, she thought. It certainly wasn't there when she dusted hours earlier. There lying on the gallery stairs was a screwdriver. Little was she to know it had been taken from another violated rural church and casually discarded by the perpetrator who was hiding close by. The tool had been stolen along with a pair of lamp snuffers and an arms plate from the parish church of All Saints in Botley which belonged to the wardens. The break-in had been discovered by gardener Charles Silvester who had locked up the premises after tending the ground...
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