By Alesha Capone
A Point Cook home owner is pleading with thieves to return wooden doors she and her father crafted together before he died.
Christine said the two sets of wooden bi-fold doors, stolen from her Ladybird Drive house overnight between May 24 and 25, held great sentimental value.
Christine and her father worked together to craft the doors, across a series of weekends.
“I know they are just doors, but 10 years ago my dad and I installed the doors, we spent a lot of time working on them together, we cut them from raw timber and we stained them to get them just how we wanted.
“Whenever I see the doors, they give me a nice feeling because I remember the time I spent with my father.”
She said that since her father passed away in 2017, the doors “became even more sentimental to me”.
Christine has lived in the Point Cook house for about 13 years and decided to renovate the property, with the doors to be a centrepiece, because of the sentimental value they hold for her.
She was alerted to the theft by her builder.
Thieves used bolt-cutters to cut through temporary fencing, chains and locks at the property.
The doors were removed from wall framing and would have required transport, such as a van or truck.
Police are investigating the theft.
Christine has posted a plea on the Point Cook Residents’ Facebook page for the thieves to return the doors.
“My plea is for whoever took the doors to return them to me,” she said.
“No sum of money could replace those doors.”
Anyone with information, or who witnessed suspicious behaviour between 8pm, May 24 and 8am, May 25 in Ladybird Drive, can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
