Kennards break-in court case

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Burglar pleads guilty over raid on warehouse

A Sydney man who police claim was part of a well-organised father-and-son burglary team has pleaded guilty today to stealing $900,000 worth of goods taken from a Melbourne warehouse.

Christopher See, 56, and his son, Phillip, 33, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged over a burglary at a Kennards Self Storage warehouse in Ivanhoe currency, gold and silver jewellery, watches and gold and silver bullion were among the items stolen.

Christopher See, from Bellevue Hill, pleaded guilty to burglary, theft and obtaining property by deception.

Police allege that a "treasure trove" of $2.19 million in cash, $US600,000, 120 kilograms of silver bullion, war medals, five firearms and 3000 pieces of gold and silver jewellery were found when they raided a storage shed at a Sydney apartment that is allegedly connected to the Sees, two weeks after they were arrested over the Melbourne burglary in December last year.

See was released on bail to appear in the County Court on May 2 next year.

His son, Phillip, from Randwick, will contest 43 charges and is in custody.

The Sees have been named by NSW police as suspects in a spate of burglaries on Sydney's north shore between 2008 and last year that allegedly netted millions of dollars.

An earlier court hearing was told that the younger See had used portable tools to grind, cut and damage locks on almost 40 security boxes at the Kennards warehouse to take their contents.

Police claimed Phillip See had accessed the property by cutting razor wire and scaling a wire-mesh fence and had used a portable electric saw to cut into a room where the security boxes were held.

During one phone call intercepted by police, Phillip See allegedly asked his father to guess how much money he had taken, later telling him it was $300,000.

"Wait till you see it, dad. You're going to be shell-shocked. The whole thing was full. I got 80 ounces of gold," Phillip See is allegedly heard to say.

Phillip See had allegedly rented a deposit box at the Kennards warehouse for about four months from October 2011 under a pseudonym.

Police believe Phillip See took the proceeds of the burglary with him in several bags and later met up with his father at Central Station in Sydney the pair had allegedly separated following the robbery.

One victim of the Kennards burglary, Sonia Sajnani, told the court today her jewellery collection worth more than $1 million had been stolen.

Ms Sajnani said the jewellery she had collected over 42 years included at least two kilograms of pure 22-carat gold as well as many diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

She said the biggest diamond in her collection had been five carats.

"You can't replicate jewellery of that quality and calibre," Ms Sajnani told the court during a committal hearing for Phillip See.

The hearing continues tomorrow.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/b...n-warehouse-20121016-27os6.html#ixzz29Sg0n3AF
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I dont understand .. If you have $1m worth of jewellry, why use warehouse as storage ? I cant comprehend some people.
 
hope sonia gets her one million dollars worth of jewellery back, poor thing
 
So the son allegedley stole $2.19 Million but told his Dad he only got $300,000...no honour amongst theives ;)

I thought their sites with firearms safes were advertised as having someone on site 24 hours!?
 
A five carat diamond stored at Kennards, :rolleyes: seams a bit daft to go a cheap form of storage for such high end products. Just not sure I'd trust a storage facility with my diamonds whos slogan is 'Kenards makes your job easy'. :P
Makes you wonder though where do you put your valubles when you can't turst the system? Maybe I need to buy a boat. It would only need to be a very small boat. :D
 
PERSONALLY for me this comes down to the old Stacking Axiom: If you don't hold it, you don't own it!
I know it's not always possible or even wise to store all of your Bullion at home BUT to store it in a general "Storage Locker" at a place like that with (LIKELY) inadequate security &/or insurance is just asking for trouble!
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS/PLACES!
 
They're not exactly namby-pamby general storage lockers...
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I think the error was that it was an area designated such that people would be inclined to store those sort of valuables - versus the kids bikes and the old settee you'll get covered one day. A burglar would be spending a lot of time for little reward going through cardboard boxes in your average facility, but something labelled 'Deposit Box area' would attract attention.
 
I am currently privileged to have the use of my dear Grandmothers Safety Deposit Box FREE OF CHARGE (& I think she only pays a paltry sum coz she's been with the bank for so many years) to store the "Excess" Bullion I have that I know I won't need "On hand" immediately.
Can anyone tell me how much a BANK safety deposit box would cost?
 
You're SO KIND! ;)
Seriously though, if you're going to Stack Bullion, it's WELL worth buying a decent quality (non-digital) Safe. Something big & heavy enough that it takes 2 VERY strong people to move it when it's empty...leather alone when full!
AND HIDE THE SAFE.....also, have it bolted to the wall or floor from the inside.
A safe like that will EASILY take 50kg of Silver Bullion.
*WHETHER OR NOT TO SPECIFY ITS EXISTENCE/CONTENTS ON YOUR CONTENTS INSURANCE IS A DEBATABLE (& OFTEN COSTLY) ISSUE*
 
I like watching storage wars and the other storage shows sometimes and would not use those kind of areas/storage anyway.

Logitech have a sale at the moment on security cameras, you use your power points as the network if you add more cameras, up to 6, you could then get anyone in your house on video and get it sent to your phone.

I dont work far from home and i think it would take them longer to find it than me to get home.

http://www.logitechshop.com.au/logitech-alerttm-750i-master-system.html

249$ extra cameras 199, i would go for the other night vision ones probably.
 
FraterArgentum said:
You're SO KIND! ;)
Seriously though, if you're going to Stack Bullion, it's WELL worth buying a decent quality (non-digital) Safe. Something big & heavy enough that it takes 2 VERY strong people to move it when it's empty...leather alone when full!
AND HIDE THE SAFE.....also, have it bolted to the wall or floor from the inside.
A safe like that will EASILY take 50kg of Silver Bullion.
*WHETHER OR NOT TO SPECIFY ITS EXISTENCE/CONTENTS ON YOUR CONTENTS INSURANCE IS A DEBATABLE (& OFTEN COSTLY) ISSUE*
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So many reasons not to have a safe at home. 50kg of bullion is actually quite small by volume.
 
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