Canna, a tiny Hebridean island off Scotland’s coast which is home to just 26 people, normally has a crime rate of zero and has no police station or even a special constable. This is a very shocking incident that a theft took place from its only shop.

 

Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is linked to the neighboring island of Sanday by a road and sandbanks at low tide. The island is 7 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide.

 

Crime was so rare in Canna that the volunteer-run Community Shop was kept open 24/7 so fishermen could buy supplies in the night and so residents had access to Wi-Fi. The honor system was the town’s Magna Carta; those who took things from the shop were supposed to leave money in a box and note purchases on a ledger.

 

McCabe, who runs the shop with partner Stewart Connor, said, “We are thinking about putting CCTV in, but we don’t want to do that because it goes against the whole honesty idea. “When you live on a small island like this you have to trust your neighbour and everybody round about.” The last crime on the island is thought to be the theft of a carved wooden plate from a church in the 1960s. she added.

News Source – indiatoday

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