article_snippet: and when police arrived a thief stayed quiet in a thief hiding place.
article_snippet: she said: 'We were all in the room while a thief was there - me, a police officer, another officer taking fingerprints, my partner.
article_snippet: a thief was within arms reach of all of us. '
article_snippet: There's a shelf inside and I assume a thief was sitting there like a gnome holding a fishing rod.
article_snippet: so I think that's the only way a thief could have done it. '
article_snippet: us went into the spare room with the police three times while a thief was sat inside there.
article_snippet: I went back into the room a thief later too.