Toppled after 90 years: Vicar Kevin Scott at The Old Malden monument, in Surrey, after thieves pushed it the ground to steal a strip of lead worth £5Sacred Memories Sold As Scrap: Clampdown On Dealers Who Encourage Pillage Of War Memorials, Demand Police -- Daily Mail
Campaigners fighting to save war memorials from scrap metal thieves say only a handful have ever been brought to justice.
Tragically, the War Memorials Trust also revealed that only one in ten of the stolen plaques and statues are ever recovered.
Frances Moreton, director of the trust, said the rest end up being melted down by unscrupulous scrap metal dealers making a fast buck out of Britain’s fallen heroes.
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My Comment: I do not live in Britain, but to me it is easy to solve and stop this problem .... change the laws to make the punishment more severe, and to change the regulations for scrap dealers in accepting scrap metal that is obviously not scrap metal. But .... it appears .... changing laws and regs are not easy in Britain.