For the duration 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 considerably as inside the summer months. 1 weekend she decided to clear up all of the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Even though she was available she went into the shed and she found some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She thought this was very strange but believed that perhaps her teenage son and his friends had had a sleepover in the shed.
She quizzed her son and he said that they wouldn’t sleep in there as the roof leaked and there was no electricity. The subsequent factor that occurred was a small fire had been made inside the entrance to the shed and there had been far more blankets and rubbish. She named the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she called us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing at the shed to get to the bottom of it. After a couple of days the tapes showed a filthy young man going into the shed and generating a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had never noticed him before and as he seemed so young she wanted to assist him. The subsequent night a social worker and our client went out into the garden to see if they could assist the young man.
He was quite polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his property and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden along with other gardens within the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his situation in the morning. He is now with foster parents and doing well at school.
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