A Phone Stolen Every 12 Seconds

Mobile phone thieves in the UK are costing the UK some US$734 million each year according to new figures issued by Halifax Home Insurance. Incidents of the crime are happening so frequently that one mobile phone is stolen every twelve seconds in the UK. Over two million mobile phones are stolen annually.

According to the insurer's data Lancaster was Britain's mobile phone theft hotspot in 2005. In close second came Wirral & Chester then Coventry. Ipswich, High Wycombe and Oxford were the safest places for mobile phone owners.

The most expensive phones were stolen in the Essex towns of Romford & Illford where the average claim amounted to around

Posted to the site on 18th May 2006