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Michael Spink Talks About Ventnor Esplanade Break-In (podcast)
Friday, 30th October, 2009 at 3:40 pm, Isle of Wight
Law & Order, News, Ventnor, podcast
You might recall that there were two break-ins overnight on Monday/ Tuesday in Ventnor. Happily that’s something of a rarity.
We went down to have a chat earlier in the week to the businesses to find out how they’ve been affected.
Here’s Michael Spink, manager of the Ventnor Bay Cafe giving his view on the event.
As Michael said, “It’s the first time that anything like this has happened along Ventnor’s seafront.” Most telling of all “You know it happens elsewhere, but you don’t expect it to happen here – especially in Ventnor. You don’t get to hear about things like this.”
Money taken and a business days earnings
The boys running the cafe had what they estimate to be £50 of tips and their petty cash for the next day were stolen, but worse, lost a days takings while the police were in the next day and the glass door was being repaired. It being half term and a sunny day, it should have been a good day for takings.
It’s good to hear from Michael that the police were quite optimistic, but they can always do with hearing from more people on this, so if you know anyone who was around the Esplanade on Monday evening, get them to get in touch with the police. They may be able to pass on valuable information.
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I feel great sympathy for Michael. Theft in my opinion, is a vile act. Whilst people work their socks off to make an honest living, others have no conscience about taking someone elses property without any thought for the consequences, financially or emotionally, of their victims.Their punishment, if found or cuaght should be as harsh as for physical assault., if not worse. All theft is premeditated.These people could be drinking with you tonight unbeknown to you and displaying a facade of normality. On a much lesser scale I have now lived in Ventnor for 6 months and last weekend, both mine and my neighbours gardens had plants stolen from them, and now our sleepy safe little road seems to have been violated, as we wonder what will be next. In some ways this is just as serious as it shatters the illusion of having honest, and supposedly nice people living near us when they can stoop to such a low level that they consider such actions to be ” acceptable ” Sadly these recent incidents have made us rethink our attitude to security, and our revisit our relaxed attitude to life in Ventnor. A sad indictment of the times we live in.
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