8:59am Monday 22nd March 2010
By Jennifer Bell
THE owners of a York fish and chip shop are offering a £1,000 reward to help catch hammer-wielding vandals who targeted their premises and left a trail of costly damage.
Lyn Barton and her partner Stuart Brown, of Green Lane Fish Bar, in Acomb, are hoping the public will help them find the two yobs who smashed all the windows of their shop in the early hours of last Thursday.
The couple said the same two teenagers had targeted the shop earlier in the week and smashed one window. But the couple say the latest attack will cost them in the region of £2,000.
Lyn, 33 and Stewart, 43, captured the vandals on CCTV and hope that police together with local residents will help find the teenagers and stop them before they cause further damage.
Lyn said: “In the early hours of Monday morning, one window got put through and we got that replaced straight away. Then, in the early hours of Thursday morning – at about the same time, 1am – every window got put though – all five big windows.
“We don’t know who they are but we have got them on CCTV and it is two teenage lads.
“You can tell it’s the same lads both time and they had the same clothes and same shoes on.
“The second time they were both armed with hammers which they used to break the glass.
“We are offering this £1,000 reward because we don’t know why they are doing it, who they are or why they are targeting us. But we want to find the answer and stop it happening again.
“We are just sitting up to all hours on tenterhooks, wondering if they will come again.
“Please, somebody come forward and give their names or go to the police. We want it to stop. We want to know who it is and why it is happening.
“To be targeted in the same week by the same lads, we feel victimised.”
Anyone with any information should phone North Yorkshire police on 0845 60 60 247. Alternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted on 0800 555 111.
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