Family devastated by theft of new uninsured caravan

Next week, Caravan Times will be bringing you Security Week – seven days of articles dedicated to keeping your tourer safe. In this news story a couple explain how their grandchildren were moved to tears by the theft of their caravan.
by Chris Jefferies
A couple from Oxfordshire have spoken of their despair at losing their brand new caravan to thieves before they had been able to insure it.
Paula and Geoffrey Day had spent their life savings, just under £13,000, on a Hobby Prestige. Yet just three weeks after they took delivery of the tourer, it was stolen in a well-planned raid, the Witney Gazette reports.
Thieves broke into their back garden in Sutton, crossed a field, cut through a fence and moved a wood pile to steal the caravan.
The couple told the local paper that they were devastated at the loss, as they were planning to use the tourer to take their two and four-year-old grandchildren away to Newcastle this weekend for their first ever summer holiday.
So distraught were the tots that they broke down in tears upon hearing the news that the caravan was gone.
“We had been getting the children excited and packing everything away ready for it. I had to say nasty people have come and stolen it, and they burst out crying,” Mrs Day added.
What’s more, the couple admitted that they couldn’t afford to buy a replacement, as their savings are now completely gone.
This heartbreaking story reinforces the importance of arranging comprehensive caravan insurance for complete coverage from the day that your new tourer is delivered. Taking the risk, it seems, is just not worth it.