A mother has been left dumbfounded when bricks started disappearing from her garden wall.

On three separate occasions this month, Sarah Jewiss and her nine-year-old daughter Nelly have awoken to find bricks have been stolen from the late-Victorian wall in Wanstead Park Avenue, Aldersbrook.

The 46-year-old first noticed the yellow stock bricks, which she claims cost around £7 to £10 each, were disappearing on the morning of Easter Saturday.

Then on April 8 more were taken.

This morning she woke around 3.30am to her two dogs barking and looked out the window, but did not see anyone outside.

But later she noticed yet more bricks had been stolen, bringing the total to around 100.

Ms Jewiss said: "I am getting more and more dumbfounded at this situation.

“It must be a professional job because they are so quiet and efficient always stealing early in the morning when no one is around.

“You would think they would make a noise chipping away at the wall but I haven’t heard or seen a thing.

“I heard the dogs barking around 3.30am this morning and had a look out of the window at the wall but no one was there, I assumed it was cats disturbing the dogs.

"Now I realise it must have been the thieves who could have hid behind the wall when they heard the barks."

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Around 100 bricks have been stolen from the garden wall on three separate occasions.

Police are going to visit the site tomorrow but Ms Jewiss said she was worried if any more bricks are taken then the wall will fall down.

She said: “The structure looks dangerous at the moment and I think that if the thieves come back then it will collapse.

“I am going to have to phone the insurance company and see what they advise but these are valuable irreplaceable original late-Victorian bricks.

“My friend was going to build a wall and decided against yellow stock bricks because they are so expensive.”

 “I have heard that this has happened before in Forest Gate and Overton Drive in Wanstead so people need to be warned about this issue.” 

Have you been affected by a similar issue? Contact reporter Douglas Patient on 07824530127.