Sad to hear, I hope you get it sorted. Two years ago I took my daughter to the park on the back of my bike, she was only two then. I arrived back home at about 1630, we messed about at the side of the house, putting the bike in the garage and Amber was playing. I didn't know anything was amiss. Little did I know there were people waiting behind our back gate. I walked through the front door and noticed there was stuff strewn across our hallway, stupidly, the first thing I thought was that our cleaner had brought her kids and they had made a mess in the hall. I heard someone in the lounge and went to say hello and as soon as I stepped in I realised the house had been turned upside down. At this point, Amber was toddling about in the hallway and heard someone through the other end of the lounge and outside, past Amber. I don't think I've ever been so scared until I got back to her and picked her up. When I did, I could see out of the window looking at the garage, and then the open front door, my BMW 130i disappearing up the drive then out into the road. I ran and dropped my now screaming daughter off at a neighbours and called the police before checking the house. All the time we were outside the garage, someone must have been stood behind the side gate. There is an end to this story...
I received an update from the local officer looking after my case that it had been passed on and I was then contacted by a national crime task force of some sort who said they knew who had taken my car and they were part of a very large traveller crime group. They were at the end of a several year investigation and a fair number of them were going to be heading towards jail, with car theft being pretty inconsequential in their list of serious crimes. We live in a pretty much crime free area and it sounds like it was fairly random they passed near us, excepting that it was a professional job as much as it can be. By a twist of fate I had taken the car keys with me and we had left spares, unintentionally, in the very last place they looked upstairs, they really did look everywhere until they found them, but they didn't break a single thing, they even placed pictures from the wall on beds. They entered by cracking the glass in the rear patio door, and did that without noise (neighbour was sat in his back room with a window open and 20 feet from our back door). They were only interested in the car and cash; laptops, tablets, cards, everything else was left, including the S3 keys with an S3 fob
The car was found undamaged parked outside a new, unoccupied house, although the insurers had already paid me immediately. It made my blood run cold thinking about how close I came to bumping into them with Amber in tow, and hearing about the gang they were part of made me think that you never ever want to confront people like this or invite a visit from their colleagues; you just want them to take the car and get as far away from your house and family as possible. On the bright side, my car insurance didn't increase at the next renewal.
