POLICE are investigating after burglars stole charity money, possessions and a car from the home of a man honoured last month with an MBE.

Law courts manager Ron Moore and a work colleague raised £1,100 for the NSPCC from a sky-dive parachute jump from 12,000 feet.

But now thieves have broken into Mr Moore's house in Clare Road, Whitstable, and stolen £300 of the money they had collected along with personal belongings.

The thieves then escaped in his Toyota Carina car containing a valuable set of golf clubs as Mr Moore and his wife, Annmarie, and son, Peter, slept upstairs.

Mr Moore, 55, has supplied police with a detailed description of all missing items in a case reminiscent of the hundreds of burglaries that have come before the courts he has managed in Canterbury for the past 13 years.

But the court administrator could not disguise his anger and dismay this week when condemning the thieves for robbing him of the charity money.

He said: "I talk to many victims of crime in my job and sympathise with them but never thought I would become a victim myself."

Mr Moore is an enthusiastic charity fund-raiser and has raised £500 for leukemia, £1,400 for Kent Air Ambulance and £1,300 for Demelza House children's hospice in the last three years.

Almost £300 of the £1,100 he hopes to hand-over to the NSPCC this year has been contributed by a work colleague Colleen Fair-brother, who planned to parachute jump but was denied the opportunity on medical grounds.