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AVOCET SECURES MIRFIELD COUPLE’S HOME
AFTER INSURANCE COMPANY LET-DOWN
Brighouse-based Avocet
Hardware has come to
the rescue of a Mirfield
couple after their insurance
company stated it would only
replace locks that had been
snapped by burglars with
like-for-like replacements – a
settlement that meant their
home would have been left at
as much risk as it was before
the burglary.
Mark Davies and Ruth
Harrison had their home
broken into and ransacked by
burglars using the increasingly
popular lock-snapping form of
forced entry on Saturday 22nd
March and a host of prized
possessions stolen, including
Ruth’s £8,000 Mini Cooper.
Avocet, which is actively
campaigning for the scale of
the lock-snapping problem
in the UK to be officially
recognised and properly
tackled, read of Mark
and Ruth’s plight in the
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
and quickly offered to upgrade
their home to its ABS snapsecure locks. At the time Mark
was dealing with his insurance
company and assumed the
settlement would see their
home being fitted with locks
that would withstand any
future lock-snapping attack.
“Ruth and I knew next to
nothing about lock-snapping
before the burglary, but
did our research straight
afterwards and we were
staggered to discover the sheer
scale of the problem,” he said.
“I was even more astonished
when our insurance company
said the locks they would fit
would be the exact same ones
that the burglars had snapped
so easily in the first place.”
Lock-snapping is now one
of the most popular means of
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Raymond Pearce, Avocet Hardware with Mark Davies of Mirfield,
West Yorkshire – the Brighouse company upgraded Mark’s locks to
ABS for free after his insurance company only offered like-for-like
replacements following a lock-snapping burglary on his home in March.
forced entry into UK homes,
with some police forces
estimating that it accounts for
over 50 per cent of all breakins.
The problem, according to
Raymond Pearce of Avocet
Hardware, is that not enough
people are aware of the issue
and so millions of homes
across the UK are unwittingly
at risk of a lock-snapping
attack.
“Lock-snapping simply
hasn’t been given the kind of
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