New College Student DJ TJ thinks he knows who stole from the party..guess what? The Black Man did it!

DJ's decks swiped by stranger


by Kathryn Gresswell
22:11 GMT, Thu 06 November 2008

A second-year St Anne's student became the victim of theft last week, after a set of DJ's decks worth £1,000 were stolen from a Halloween house party.

The student, Simon Maxwell-Stewart, was hosting the party at his house just off Iffley Road last Friday night. Around a hundred people turned up, including a number of strangers whom Maxwell-Stewart and his housemates believe may be responsible for the theft.

The missing equipment included two Pioneer CDJ-200 CD decks, worth £300 each, a Pioneer DJM400 mixer worth £400 and a £20 UV light. New College Student TJ Hertz, a DJ at the Oxford electronic night Eclectric, and one of Maxwell-Stewart's house-mates, said: "We think we know who did it", TJ said, "One of the guys was wandering around the party suspiciously for a lot of the evening.

"The guy was black, 18-25, maybe 5'5" with a big thick coat that he pulled up over his face for a lot of the time."

TJ described how the stranger's behaviour became more conspicuous during the party:

"At about 6.30pm he stumbled into the bedroom next to the living room, where my friend and his girlfriend were inside. The guy said something along the lines of ‘Sorry, thought the garden was through this way' before leaving. The decks disappeared in the next 15 minutes."

The theft was not discovered until the following morning.

"At about 6.45 in the morning a friend of mine came upstairs and mentioned casually ‘I see you've put the decks away,'" TJ said, "at which point I went downstairs and realised the decks and mixer were nowhere to be seen.

"We found a chair propped up against the back wall of the garden, next to some ivy that looked like it had been pulled down." Simon and his housemates found the mobile number of the party-goer acting suspiciously and called him last Sunday, when he was told to call the next day to "get his decks back."

"We're still trying to find out his name and where he lives, but it's looking unlikely," TJ said. "We've been to the police, who said they could set up a meeting, but obviously that hasn't happened.

"We'll see if they can find his address through his phone number but I'm sceptical. There's almost certainly not enough evidence for the police to charge him."

wrong times" by Jennifer Edmunds

Posted: 01:58 GMT, Tue 11th November 2008

also being a resident of Simon's house, we the housemates would like to point out a slight error in the article above - the decks were stolen between the times of 6.30a.m. and 6.45a.m.,not p.m.! it would be pretty stupid of us not to notice the decks were missing for over 12 hours... thanks





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