"I felt healed": Mum met burglar who stole precious memories of her dead daughter and bonded with him

Fecha de publicación: 14-feb-2013 10:34:13

When Margaret Foxley found out her house had been burgled and a laptop, camera and jewellery had been taken by a drug addict, she wanted him locked up and the key thrown away for good.

She had thought of her home as a ­sanctuary where she could live safely with her husband Paul, her son Oliver and daughter Jessica.

Now she was too scared to be alone, her nerves on edge at the thought of the burglar, Ian Ashworth, coming back, although he was caught a month later.

“I would do anything rather than go into an empty house.

"I’d go to the shops or sit in the library until 7pm when my husband got home,” says Margaret from Colne, Lancashire. Continue Reading http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/restorative-justice-i-met-burglar-who-1589857