A Leeds fan has been left "bereft" after a homeless drug addict stole £30,000 of treasured collectables, that had been collected over the course of 30 years.
The items, 238 Leeds United programmes, were stolen and then sold on, leaving the victim believing that he will "never recover" all of the items. He had been collecting the programmes since he was a little boy, with some of them dating back to 1925.
The man had kept the items in "pride of place" in his bedroom, but they disappeared after Andrew Dicks, 54, moved into the man's home while he did decorating work. Dicks, of Tivoli Gardens, Grimsby, had been carrying out the decorating work at the man's home and was under strict instructions not to go into the man's bedroom. He was only supposed to go into certain rooms of the house.
