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One day Andrea, a divorced woman living alone with her 10 year old daughter Jana in a small flat, invited her former husband Jan, her sister Helena and her brother-in-law Tom, who was Helena’s husband to her flat to celebrate her birthday.
Invited people arrived in the afternoon and started celebration, which mainly consisted of drinking alcohol, both beer and different kinds of spirit.
Jana spent the whole afternoon in her room and soon after dinner, prepared by her mother, she went to bed. In the morning she got up as usual and without breakfast she went to school. On her way to school she bought some cakes as she always does. During celebration she didn’t enter the sitting room.
Andrea and her guests continued drinking in the sitting room, which also served as a bedroom for Andrea. During celebration all the people got drunk. They fell asleep in a different time after midnight and were sleeping on the carpet or in an armchait in the sitting room. During the next morning they gradually left Andrea’s flat without saying good bye, so at the end Andrea, who was drunken most and woken up last, stayed there alone. At noon she decided to do some shopping to prepare meal for her daughter, but she wasn’t able to find her purse. She usually have it in a wardrobe in the sitting room. She tried to find it, so she searched the whole flat, but she didn’t find it. She was sure that she had had it before the celebration started and that during the celebration none of them had left the flat to buy another alcohol.
It was clear that some of the visitors had stolen it. She suspected Jan of stealing the purse, because he was unemployed and without money, but Tom was also able to steal it because he had been already in prison a few times for a theft. She visited both Jan and Tom and asked them to give her back her money, but they both denied a theft, so after a few days, not at once, she announced a case to the police.
A police inspector from a local police station started investigation for a theft, he interviewed both the people, who had taken part in the celebration in Andrea’s flat and the people from neighbourhood, but without a positive result. Of course, none of the guests confessed stealing the purse with money. People from neighbourhood didn’t notice anything. They only were very annoyed during the celebration, because it was very noisy even in the night. Stolen purse wasn’t found.
During investigation there wasn’t found any evedence against a certain person, so the police inspector had to put a case ad acta. The purse might have been stolen not only by Jan or Tom. Helena was also able to steal it, because she worked as a cleaning woman and she didn’t earn lots of money, she liked drinking alcohol and had a strong smoking habit, so had shortage of money. It was also possible that Andrea had lost her purse still before the celebration started without notice it, because she regularly drinks beer and is drunken very often.
The decision of the police inspector was found lawful, so the prosecutor accepted it and none person was accused of stealing Andrea’s purse.

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