Vicar forgave crook who tried to raid his shed

A vicar offered the hand of friendship to one of London’s most prolific cycle thieves after he tried to break into his shed looking for high-end road bikes. The Reverend Christopher ‘Cris’ Rogers, of All Hallows Church in Bow, told trespasser Christopher Clarke: ‘If you ever need help knock on my front door, not the shed.’ The vicar was pottering in the outhouse on 19 October last year when he heard Clarke yanking at the door. Assuming it was his…