Tracey lost ‘priceless’ goods in a Melbourne storage unit break-in. Then the legal battle began

With nowhere to live, disability pensioner Tracey Kruger put her precious possessions in a storage unit that was later allegedly robbed. Photograph: Simon Dallinger/The Guardian

Tracey Kruger’s storage unit was meant to be temporary. The 63-year-old had been forced to leave her home and, with no fixed address, she placed nearly everything she owned in a storage shed in Melbourne’s north.

She was left heartbroken – and out of pocket – when her unit was one of more than 10 at the StoreLocal in Campbellfield that police allege were broken into and robbed in June last year.