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Kicking up a fuss:

17 June 2008

Disco bogus caller.jpg

Football legend Jackie Charlton was, in his playing days, a combative defender. Now he is backing a water industry campaign to tackle so-called distraction burglary when bogus callers knock on the door of a pensioner or a vulnerable family (often claiming to be from the "water board"), nip inside and nick cash and anything else they can lay their hands on. Also in our pic is pensioner Don Pape, who had his life savings stolen by three men posing as water company staff.

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