""Some of our volunteers have dug up phones wrapped in tin foil.""
""They're all really so grateful, which is nice," she told the BBC."
""Other times I charge it up, but nobody rings, I don't know who it belongs to, or I can't find them on social media, so I just take it to the police station.""
Volunteers at Phoenix Garden in Covent Garden regularly find stolen phones buried or hidden in flower beds and sometimes thrown over the garden fence. Thieves reportedly target busy West End shopping areas such as Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, often operating on electric bikes, and stash devices in community gardens wrapped in tin foil to obscure their location. Volunteers retrieve phones, use Apple Find My to reunite devices with owners, call emergency contacts when available, or charge phones and hand them to police when owners cannot be identified. Fewer recent recoveries suggest thieves are adapting concealment methods to reduce discovery.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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