MINI MART HIT - AGAIN
A shop in Withering High Street has been targeted by burglars for the second time in six months.
Last October, a break-in at Langham’s Mini Mart occurred during a village-wide crime spree which had local residents cowering in terror.
Yesterday evening the shop was burgled again. Upon arriving at work this morning, 47-year-old proprietor Jeff Langham noticed a small, circular hole bored in the base of his back door. Nothing else was damaged and the door did not appear to have been forced.
On this occasion, £2.47 in cash, two bags of Really Cheesy Wotsits and a candle stub were stolen.
Police forensic experts later removed minute traces of string fibre from the edges of the hole and a quantity of small, round droppings from a display shelf inside the shop.
“The nature of the haul, the string fibres and the droppings all suggest the use of remote-controlled mice to pull off the robbery,” a police spokesman told the Observer.
“If this proves to be the case, it marks a new and particularly disturbing development in breaking and entering,” he added.
If you have any information about Tuesday’s robbery or if you know of anyone who regularly ties up rodents, you should phone the Froghill Constabulary on 0372 47777. All calls will be treated in confidence.
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