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We can’t rely on the police to clean up mobile phone theft

15 April 2023

4:00 PM

15 April 2023

4:00 PM

A call from my younger son’s secondary school was not what I was expecting at 11.30 a.m., but as soon as I heard the secretary speak I knew what had happened to him.

He’d just got himself a pair of Apple AirPods and was keen to use them – why wouldn’t he be? As he stepped off the bus, with his new wireless earphones in place, he was followed up the road to the school by two boys.

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