{"id":17210,"date":"2017-11-10T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17210"},"modified":"2017-11-10T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:26:07","slug":"heritage-crime-thief-jailed-for-stripping-lead-from-the-roofs-of-rural-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17210","title":{"rendered":"Heritage crime: Thief jailed for stripping lead from the roofs of rural churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Telegraph_website_101117.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17211\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Telegraph_website_101117.png\" alt=\"Telegraph website 101117\" width=\"250\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>A thief who stripped over \u00a3100,000 of lead from the roofs of rural churches, leaving one facing closure after 800 years, has been jailed for five years.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph writes:<\/p>\n<p>A judge told Remus Tudorache, 27, that he could face deportation after admitting carrying out a string of devastating thefts in 2015, as well as being part of a gang which targeted others.\u00a0 St Mary\u2019s Church in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, which dates back to the 13th Century, was the hardest hit as Tudorache targeted it twice &#8211; leaving locals fearing for its future. A court heard his gang ripped lead worth \u00a3100,000 from its roof after the small band of parishioners fought for two years to raise \u00a3120,000 to fund vital restoration work.<\/p>\n<p>In an impact statement, Corinne Youngs, secretary of Baconsthorpe Parochial Church Council, said the brutal blow had left the medieval church \u2018crushed and devastated\u2019. Canon Paul Thomas, also from the church, said worshippers were \u2018appalled and some were in tears\u2019 following the devastating raid after they&#8217;d worked so hard to help restore the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/11\/04\/romanian-thief-jailed-stripping-lead-roofs-rural-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thief who stripped over \u00a3100,000 of lead from the roofs of rural churches, leaving one facing closure after 800 years, has been jailed for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17212,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions\/17212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}