One can't help but feel sorry for Mel Gaskell and his pregnant girlfriend, 16-year-old Gill Hammond on being burgled and having their freezer emptied of £160 of food.

What puzzled me is how one can afford to buy and run a large chest freezer and fill it with £160s worth of food when they are both on income support and say they have no money.

D Robinson,

Morecambe

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