A COUPLE has been the victim of a “horrible” burglary in which thieves stole a statue which is a commemoration to their son who died aged just 18. Criminals snuck into the garden of Steve and Carol Wellington’s Colehill home before managing to dislodge the bronze garden feature that had sat next to a pond for 15 years. The burglary involved the culprits scaling a front wall, leaping over a drainage ditch and another fence to access the property. The statue, which portrays of a nymph-like boy fishing, was gifted to the couple after their son Curtis died suddenly in 2005. Mr Wellington, who works for Poole-based Alpha Electronics, said: “This is just horrible. I don’t want it to happen to anyone else. It might be something that is not so treasured but for me it is more of a treasure than it would be to anyone else.