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The thieves are getting younger.

(83 Posts)
Sago Fri 08-Mar-24 18:32:26

Police in North Yorkshire pulled up a BMW X5 towing a caravan on the M1.

The car and caravan were stolen and on false plates, equipment used to steal the vehicles was found in the car along with false number plates.

The driver who was travelling alone is 11 years old.

Disgraceful but on the other hand commendable.

V3ra Sun 10-Mar-24 18:46:15

I don't imagine the boy had any choice in the matter.

OldFrill Sun 10-Mar-24 19:56:06

Oreo

Time will tell if it’s travellers or not but it’s very possible from other cases I’ve read about locally.
And since when did Irish travellers become another ‘ethnicity’?
They’re as Irish as anyone else in Ireland.
Or as English as anyone else in England for that matter.
There are Romany groups but by no means all are.

2000 in the UK 2017 in Ireland

NotSpaghetti Sun 10-Mar-24 19:59:19

And updated in 2022

www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/summaries/gypsy-roma-irish-traveller/

Oreo Sun 10-Mar-24 21:03:04

So? Irish travellers are still Irish.
Roma are a different group for classification purposes.

NotSpaghetti Mon 11-Mar-24 07:32:37

Irish Travellers are a separate group. They are recorded differently by different data collectors.

Genetically separate.

www.ed.ac.uk/usher/news-events/news-2017/gene-study-reveals-irish-travellers-ancestry#:~:text=Irish%20Travellers%20are%20of%20Irish,into%20their%20history%20and%20heritage.

Katie59 Mon 11-Mar-24 09:46:26

There are many traveller groups and they don’t like each other at all, not all live in caravan camps many are settled but that does not mean they have abandoned their heritage.
There is a high ranking Romany family closeby settled for decades, even so they havn’t integrated locally the gates are closed and keep to themselves, when there is a funeral hundreds come to pay their respects.

Irish travellers are different closed camps where nobody knows anything, when there has been a lot of thieving in the area the police get a riot squad together and retrieve most of it. It’s rare that anyone is convicted there is no evidence who took it.

I can imagine the interview with the 11yr old
Q who told you to drive the caravan
A dads mate

Q who is that
A Jim

Q we’re does Jim Live
A don’t know

And so on

Eventually the mother is interviewed who says well I put him to bed at 9pm he must have climbed out of the window.

They are all well coached.

eazybee Mon 11-Mar-24 11:02:55

Commendable?????