Feel for you mate, glad that you and your family are OK. Sounds like the same sort of deal that happened to me 3 weeks ago see
http://civictype-r.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130859
I hope it is the same gang they're really need locking up - aggravated burglary, robbery on the building society and running over innocent pedestrians. a serious stretch is required for these very dangerous people (I would apply said stretch to their necks).
Greater Manchester detectives are more like the Keystone Cops absolutely farcical. Someone called in for a PNC check on my car half an hour after it was stolen, but they can't find the officer concerned to find out where they saw the car! They keep appealing for witnesses stating that my car was stolen the day before the robbery, when it was stolen 58 hours before - and I don't believe it turned invisible. Or when I pointed out that the car was running on fumes and that the thieves had put £20 quids worth of juice in and that they should check the local garages CCTV, they came back with the ludicrous theory that the robbers filled it from cans - yeah right. (Cheshire police checked the Cheshire garages).
Seano