The Vincent family have been described by ''The Times'' as a "family of career criminals hohave a string of convictions for targeting elderly householders". They are part of a

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community living in the county of

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, England.Burglar Henry Vincent laid to rest in hail of obscenities and punches.
Will Humphries, ''

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'', 4 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018. In 2011, Henry Vincent (born c. 1959) was jailed with his son, Henry Vincent Jr., for defrauding an 81 year old man by showing him a handful of maggots that he had brought with him to convince his victim that the joists of his roof were rotten. In April 2018, his wife Rosemary purchased the

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Snagbrook House in Hollingbourne, Kent, from Dudley Wright for £325,000 compared with a market value estimated by ''The Times'' to be £1.7 million.Family of stabbed burglar Henry Vincent buys mansion at fraction of its value.
John Simpson, ''The Times'', 3 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018. In April 2018, Henry Vincent junior died after he was stabbed by a pensioner whose home in Hither Green he was robbing with another man. The case caused a national sensation in which the ability of home-owners to defend themselves against intruders was debated after the homeowner was arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later released. Also in April 2018, David Vincent and his son also David, an uncle and cousin of Henry Vincent junior, were jailed for defrauding a homeowner.Relatives of Hither Green burglar Henry Vincent jailed for conning elderly man out of £6k.
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'', 27 April 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.

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