Sight Concern office trashed

Sight Concern – the charity that produces the popular communication – was broken into early on Tuesday morning. Volunteers arriving to put this week’s edition on tape had to be turned away.

Doors and windows were smashed at the Union Street offices and filing cabinet locks had been broken.

Services and outreach manager Sue Fever (above) said she was absolutely furious when she discovered what had happened.

“I was so angry,” she said. “We’re a charity, we don’t have money to throw around.

“I have no idea how much it will cost to repair and replace everything but to do something like this when funding is being cut is beyond belief.”

She added: “We don’t keep cash in the office and hardly anything was taken but everything was in such a mess.

“It looks as though they were looking for something and they smashed everything along the way. They had to break the locks to get into the filing cabinets.

“We couldn’t get in initially because the door was smashed in.”

Sue was also upset because Sight Concern has been in transit since moving out of its Stuart Street premises last year.

“We’d only moved into the new offices at the beginning of September,” she said. “We’d just finished unpacking and got everything up and running.” A Beds Police spokeswoman said two people had been arrested and were being held at Luton police station.