All areas were notified.
It seemed a puzzling case.
The raspberry ripple ice-cream tub
Had vanished without trace.
A tub of most exquisite brand
And only newly bought.
Identikits were quickly scanned
And witnesses were sought.
The motive? It was surely greed
And those who probe and pry
Can be a shrewd and dogged breed.
Who test each alibi.
For suddenlt the breakthrough came
But only just in time.
Within an ear, a wispered name
Connected with the crime.
And so we happily report
That, by informers branded,
The criminal has now
Been caught
Red-raspberry-ripple-handed
