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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Georgia Bell

West End phone thieves burying stolen handsets

Stolen phones are being buried in community gardens, according to volunteers who keep finding them in their flower beds.

The centrally located Phoenix Garden sits just off Shaftesbury Avenue in Covent Garden, and has been home to dozens of stolen phones, which reportedly get stashed there after being stolen from the West End.

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