London – Two women wanted for sneaking into an elderly care facility for stealing cash and credit cards, and who were properly identified by an attentive member of the Jewish safety patrol Shomrim, have been sentenced to jail.
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The Hackney Gazette (http://bit.ly/TABWoo) published pictures of 43-year-old Deborah Arthur and 30-year-old Fortunata Paczkowska as they entered Ajex House (Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women) care home in East Bank, Stamford Hill on Saturday January 26.
They tried to enter residents’ flats and successfully entered the home of a 79-year-old male resident, taking his money.
After their images were posted in the Gazette, a reader who is part of the the uniformed orthodox Jewish street safety patrol, Shomrim, identified Paczkowska.
Shomrim is a 25-member orthodox Jewish squad based in Stamford Hill that patrols the streets of Hackney and South Tottenham and reports crimes to police.
The two women pleaded guilty to artifice burglary. Paczkowska was also charged with another distraction burglary at Ajex House on Saturday, March 8, when she focused her thievery attempts on a 91-year-old man.
Arthur and Paczkowska were sentenced June 5 at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Arthur was sentenced to three and a half years’ in jail and Paczkowska was sentenced to five years’ in jail.
Nice work by the Shomrim. I notice the criminals each got long jail sentences. In New York they would have gotten a slap on the wrist and be back on the streets the next day.
Here in the United States, they would have received probation.