House Breaking By Night

Why Must Break Other People's House?

End of January this year was really miserable and unpleasant moments for my family. We have just arrived from Kedah when we noticed that our house was broken into by burglars. The burglars bent the iron bars at the back of Jimi's room.

after removing the glass panes, they used thick woods to squeeze and tore apart the iron bars

One of them with smaller body then entered the room and opened the back door to let his friend enter the house.

Luckily, they did not take so many things from our house. Missing items are one unit of an old and unused mobile phone Nokia 3230 belonged to Jimi, one unit of Sony Handy-cam, one unit of Play Station 2, Battery Chargers for hand phones and cash in coins in the saving boxes. 

To our surprise, they did not take some other personal and valuable items.

I lodged a Police Report the next day and coincidently one of my neighbor's son was arrested by the Police for suspected drug misused. However, Jimi's Nokia 3230 was found inside his pocket during the arrest. Some important evidence such as photographs of Jimi's girl friends were not yet deleted from the phone memory. This was the clear cut evidence that the boy has had kept a stolen item from our house. After the police interrogation, he confessed of entering our house in the particular night when we were away in Kedah. The boy is known as Sulong and was very friendly with us before the incident. I was really hurt and felt sorry for the boy's wrong doing and very angry to him because he was so quickly in disposing off other stolen items to 3rd parties prior to his arrest.

He had pleaded guilty to the charge for house breaking by night under Section 457 of the Malaysian Penal Code  and was convicted and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment at Pengkalan Chepa Jail, Kelantan.

Till today the only stolen item that we manage to recover back is the Jimi's Nokia 3230. Others gone with the wind.

Why are burglars broke into people's house? How they learned to break through? The answer is easy to me. They have learned it from movies, videos, television and other means of media which either direct or indirectly taught the audience how to commit crimes. No wonder why in certain Western Countries we have read how a student shot to dead and seriously wounded his classmates for unacceptable reason. 

In our incident, Sulong was a young drug addict and have no strength to break open our house without the help of another stronger accomplice. Definitely he was duly assisted by someone who had enough experience about breaking apart the steel bars using thick woods only.

Now we have to employ a temporary security guard to watch our house, each time we are traveling away. If not, our house will be broke into again and bigger loss are at stake.

We also had fixed some lights at the back portion of our house so that the burglars are exposed to public while they are working to break the steel bars. They can easily be seen in the distance if they are closer to the lights.

If Sulong is not around anymore, his accomplice is still at large and will become a potential burglar to break into our house again. With knowledge and information he gained from the first break through, I think the next job is very easy for him to execute. This time, he will clear our house cleanly.

I just leave all this to the God.