Glad to hear you & family ok Johnny. seems like you may get a measure of justice if ob dot the dots, but not quite what the c*nts deserve!
had the same happen to us a few years ago. bastards used a statue from the garden to put the back door through,one evening. me & the gf had gone to bed early( ). i ran downstairs with a baseball bat & a machete to see two blokes legging it down the garden. gave chase over a few gardens but lost them. when plod turned up & told them about chasing them, one of them gave me a lecture for arming myself with the bat !
lucky i'd forgot to mention the 4ft machete as well