Bizarre vandalism including an egg attack and pushing a car into a gutter as well as paint hurled over a vehicle in road rage as well as car crime and burglaries have hit a Cambridgeshire town.

Police are appealing for information about a series of crimes in St Ives - and September 13 was a black day for crime.

Road rage


Officers are investigating an incident of criminal damage to a vehicle that took place outside an industrial unit on Stephenson Road at around 8.45am on Saturday (September 16) in which a tin of paint was thrown over the victim’s car.


Gutter vandal

A silver Ford car, left parked on the street outside its owner’s house on Cedar Road, was damaged at sometime between on Saturday (September 16).

Vandals made dents in the roof and also possibly also pushed the vehicle towards the gutter.

Loud bang burglars

Residents of a house on Abbots Close were awoken in the night early on Sunday (September 17) by “several loud bangs” and when they looked outside saw two suspicious men near their garden fence walking off down the street.

In the morning, they discovered that the outer panes of a double glazed window had been broken and the sunroof of a car on the driveway was smashed.

Egg attack

Police are investigating an incident of criminal damage at a house on Romney Close that took place shortly after midnight early on Sunday morning, September 17, in which intruders entered the front garden and threw objects, including an egg, at the house, denting the plastic frame of a window.


Car tyres were slashed on Orwell Close between 6.30pm on Friday (September 15) and 2pm the following day.

The front and back tyres of the blue Renault car were cut.

Jewel thieves

The burglary team is investigating a break-in at a house on Redwell Close, that happened at some time between midday on Wednesday (September 13) and noon the following day.

Thieves broke the glass in a rear window then reached through and used the keys that had been left in the lock to open it and enter the house. They then carried out a thorough search and left having stolen items of jewellery.

House-to-house enquiries have been made, and police are investigating one report that the sound of breaking glass was heard late on the Thursday evening.

Intruders burgled a house on Ansley Way whilst the owner was away between Saturday (September 9) and Friday (September 15).

The thieves smashed a conservatory window in a rear conservatory and the glass of inner patio doors, before carrying out a “thorough and messy search”, then left having stolen items of jewellery and other personal possessions. Police have carried out house-to-house enquiries and the investigation is continuing.

Dishwasher theft

Thieves broke into a lock-up garage on the site of a housing development on Knights Way at some time overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday (September 13) and stole a £500 dishwasher.

A teenager in a group of three was seen to kick a window and shattered it at a house on Clare Court at around 5:30pm on Wednesday (September 13).

Police have carried out enquiries at neighbouring houses and have looked at CCTV footage, but no positive information has been obtained that might identify the culprits.

And police were called to an attempted break-in at a house on Bittern Close that took place at 9.15pm on Wednesday (September 13).

Vehicle crime

Police have appealed for information following three crimes involving cars and vans that took place on Meadow How between Wednesday (September 13) and the following day.

A very distinctive black Ford transit Rally Cross van, decorated with sponsorship logos and containing expensive racing equipment, was broken into and stolen at some time between 11pm on Wednesday and 7am am on Thursday.

Police are looking into reports that the van was seen being driven away at about 2.30 am on the Thursday morning.

A blue Ford Cougar was broken into and ransacked, and a sat-nav stolen along with a small amount of loose change, at some time between 7pm on Wednesday and 3.15pm on Thursday.

A blue Peugeot 208 was entered and searched, but nothing was taken, between 6pm on Wednesday (September 13) and 6.45am the following day.

