In the course of the winter we had a call for one of our customers. She was concerned that a person had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she did not go into the garden as much as inside the summer months. One weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Even though she was on the market she went into the shed and she found some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She believed this was very strange but thought that perhaps her teenage son and his friends had had a sleepover within the shed.
She quizzed her son and he stated that they wouldn’t sleep in there as the roof leaked and there was no electricity. The subsequent factor that happened was a small fire had been made within the entrance to the shed and there had been much more blankets and rubbish. She known as the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she known as us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing in the shed to obtain to the bottom of it. After a couple of days the tapes showed a filthy young man going into the shed and creating a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had never seen him before and as he seemed so young she wanted to help him. The subsequent night a social worker and our client went out into the garden to see if they could help the young man.
He was quite polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his house and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden as well as other gardens inside the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his scenario in the morning. He is now with foster parents and performing well at school.
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