POLICE are investigating after 300 straw bales were destroyed in an arson attack at at farm in Neswick, Near Bainton.
The attack happned on Sunday September 30 and involved a stack was about 200 feet in area and 50 feet in height.
Police said that between 6pm and 7pm the stack has been left to await collection but someone set alight the bales, destroying all the straw to the value of approximately £5,000.
Police are appealing for information. Anyone who can help should phone 101 and quote crime reference 1933162.
Officers are also investigating a burglary in Brandesburton which happened over the weekend of Friday September 28 to Sunday 30.
Thieves forced entry to rooms above the garage of an address on Elm Tree Way Brandesburton and stole two bespoke cycles and electrical equipment. The owner believes that a vehicle would have had to be used to transport the goods. The two cycles are both unique, one is a red ‘Tarmac SL35 Works ZIPP404’ road cycle and the other is a chrome ‘Canondale Mountain Cycle’.
Between Sunday September 30 and Wednesday October 3 diesel was also stolen from the village when crominals approached a 4 x4 Isuzu vehicle parked on the drive way of a semi detached property down a cul-de-sac. Using an unidentified tool, the underside fuel drain plug was removed and the diesel fuel was removed.ime reference 1933802.
Land Rover parts stolen from Driffield Show Ground at around 2.30pm on Sunday September 30, when a Blue Land Rover Discovery VRM YW53CXV was left parked secure and unattended on the grass parking area. Someone approached the vehicle and by unknown means removed and stole the glass from the electric drivers side wing mirror before making off from the scene
The vehicle was fitted with an internal motion alarm but this did not activate as no entry gained into vehicle.
Meanwhile, between 6.30am and 7.00pm on Thursday October 4 criminals entered the open gated driveway and walked into the rear garden of the detached house in Middle Street, Kilham. A double size 6ft copper water tank covered in green insulation with the word ”Driffield” written on it in black marker pen was removed from the rear garden. It had been stored between the house and outbuildings, out of sight of passing traffic on the main road. The Tank would have required two people to lift due to its weight and a vehicle would also have been required to it transport away.
The owner has lived at the property for approx four years and his mother lived there 30 years previously and this is the first time he has had to report any incidents of this nature.
On a positive note, police said a female had been arrested for shop theft at Lidl, Driffield at around 5.30pm on Saturday September 29.
the middle aged woman stole a bottle of vodka and a bottle of Cherry Snapps from Lidl on Mill Street Driffield. She was seen to put the bottles in her handbag and walk out of the store without offering payment. Shortly after she was identified and arrested by the police for shop theft. During interview the female admitted to the theft and was subsequently bailed to a later date.