A burglar logged into his victim's social networking site account after stealing her laptop and left cruel messages about his stolen goods. The thief accessed Victoria Richardson's Facebook page the day after breaking into the home she shares with her family in Hove, East Sussex, on Wednesday night. Mrs. Richardson, who lost an iPhone, a Nintendo DS games console, a handbag containing a purse, cash and debit cards and a black Toshiba laptop in the burglary, said the invasion of privacy made the crime doubly painful. One message read: “on my new laptop” while another said, “listening to music on my new phone feels so good”. The thief then adds further insult by saying he left the TV in the house as it was “rubbish” and that he plans to make a trip to a pawn shop with some of the other goods. The criminal signed off with the message, “regards your nighttime burglar”. Mrs. Richardson, 42, told the Brighton Argus: “I felt very spooked.” She added: “It felt like they were rubbing my nose in it. They have been in your physical space, and then they are in your online space.” She urged people with computers to protect them with passwords so they did not fall victim to similar invasions of privacy. Sussex Police confirmed it attended the incident.
