John Flynn, landlord of Brendan the Navigator, expressed distress: “It's very annoying redoing doors and windows each time. It's costing us thousands of pounds. It seems to be a concerted gang going on, a lot of pubs in the area are being broken into. These are not opportunists, they are organised. They know what they are doing. I don't know if police are linking them or seeing it all as a pattern. We are all feeling very vulnerable.”
Chris Sparks, landlord of Charlotte Despard, recounted: “I know their names, I know who they are, the police aren't interested. They come looking through the window, spray painting their names on walls, then removing them, generally displaying threatening behaviour. We’ve been sleeping on the site since the first break-in on November 4, and it feels like the same four people are coming back, who are part of a much larger gang.”
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