Burglary at No Campaign Offices

The North East No Campaign suffered a temporary set back today following a break-in at their offices in Frederick Street.
Situated on the third floor above a coffee shop, No Campaign staff arrived at work to find the front window broken and draws and cabinets rifled.

Perhaps not unusual for Sunderland, another 'opportunist' theft, but the window the burglar got through has to be accessed via steep roof slopes and is over precarious drop with loose guttering. Not the work of a passing opportunist. A passing drug addict may not have been phased by the 50ft drop but he would have had to have had gymnastic skills and the balance of a Navaho Indian to get through the window.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow. Computer systems are being checked for interference.

The press actually arrived before the police this morning after they were informed as they rang the office on campaign business.

They did muse that perhaps the thieves were looking for the £100,000 and made the same mistake as the Electoral Commission in getting the wrong campaign.
They also ruled out involvement by the Deputy Prime Minister after observing that he could not have got through such a small window.

More to follow.