DENISE CHAPMAN

Denise Chapman

When Denise Chapman chased her stolen horse trailer across three counties phoning the police all the way - they didn't bother to do anything! (Denise Chapman)

The £4,500 trailer was followed by friends of Denise Chapman, while she gave police minute-by-minute updates of its location so officers could intervene.

Even though the police knew exactly where the stolen horse trailer was from the moment it was taken until it disappeared inside a travellers camp, they never showed up - while the trailer travelled across three counties in a pursuit that lasted for more than an hour!

Denise Chapman described the failure of police to react as "an absolute farce"..."We did everything we could possibly do. We followed them every step of the way and even had a full description of the van which towed the trailer away, and its registration number...we handed it to them on a plate and they still couldn't manage to do anything"!

The trailer was driven east into Kent before heading through the Dartford Tunnel-to Essex. Surrey Police notified each force as it entered their area but once it reached the travellers' site in Basildon the friend, who asked not to be identified, dared go no further.

Miss Chapman said: "Essex Police suggested that I go to the site and contact them when I'd located the trailer and they would then meet me there...I am a mother of five-year-old twins who I'd have to have taken with me. To expect me to go unassisted to a gipsy site on a dark night beggars belief"!

Miss Chapman has made an official complaint. Both Essex and Surrey Police said they were investigating the matter.

But of course nothing will happen to them - after all if the police force is happy to employ convicted criminals it certainly isn't going to be worried by the lazy and moronically incometent!

And since these days the government has virtually declared that travellers are a protected species who are allowed to break any laws they choose, it is no wonder the police didn't want to help Denise Chapman when travellers stole her property, and just told her to deal with it on her own!

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