HOSPICE fund-raisers today branded as "sick" raiders who stole gardening equipment worth £1,600.
Strimmers, hedge trimmers and power tools were taken by raiders who broke through a fence at the St Barnabas Hospice in Columbia Drive, Worthing.
The tools were used by volunteer gardeners to maintain the hospice's grounds.
Hospice general manager Alan Welton also denounced teenage fraudsters who posed as genuine collectors for St Barnabas to fleece cash from shoppers.
Worried members of the public called the hospice after two boys aged eight to 12 were spotted collecting money in unmarked containers in North Lane, Goring.
Mr Welton called it "appalling to target a respected local charity."
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