Having your home broken into is bad enough. But one Rotorua family is disgusted after discovering what they believe is evidence burglars had done more than rummage through their drawers and drink their booze. Kelly Makiha reports. Evidence suggesting burglars had sex in the master bedroom of a Rotorua family's home has left the owners devastated and disgusted.
The Kawaha Point Rd family, who don't want to be identified, stayed overnight at their in-laws on Saturday. While they were away, their home was broken into. When one family member returned home on Sunday morning to get some clothes, he discovered the house had been ransacked. He rang his wife and told her all the drawers - as well as some windows, doors and cupboards - were open. His wife told the Rotorua Daily Post they noticed all the linen on their master bed had been removed and their duvet pushed down.
There was an empty bottle of Appleton Estate rum they believed was from their liquor cupboard sitting on the bedside table. Later that day they discovered the mattress protector, two pillowcases and their fitted sheet rolled into a ball and tossed over the back cliff behind their house, which leads down to Lake Rotorua.
The woman said on closer inspection of the linen, it appeared to be stained with semen. My husband picked it up and put it in the box. He was gagging. She said coping with a burglary was bad enough without the knowledge strangers appeared to have done something sexual in their bedroom. It means the activity upstairs with the bed has obviously been used for their pleasure and they have dumped the evidence over the cliff.
I can totally get a break-in but someone coming in when you're not here and not even being scared of being caught, casually drinking a full bottle of liquor and making use of the facilities and then leaving.
