Garry loses livelihood as ice cream van stolen from drive
HE IS APPEALING FOR ITS RETURN
A DERBY man has been left shocked after his ice cream van was stolen from his driveway while he slept.
Garry Singh is well known in the city for selling frozen goodies in Derby since the 80s.
Garry told the Derby Telegraph that his ice cream van was still on his driveway in Devonshire Drive, Mickleover, when he when he came back from the pub on Monday night. However, when he checked on the van several hours later, the vehicle had disappeared.
Despite asking neighbours if they had seen anything, Garry and his son Pally have not been able to track the van down.
Pally said: “We are absolutely shocked, I can’t believe it right now.
“I am shocked, I am angry. He has lost his income, he has lost his work as well.”
Garry said: “At about 7pm, I went to the pub for a pint and I came back at 9pm. I plugged the van in at 10pm and then I went to bed. I woke up at 2am to go to the toilet and I looked out of the window and the van wasn’t there.”
Garry has had the van since 2009, but has been selling ice creams in Derby since 1984. He moved to Derby from India in the 1970s when
I am shocked, I am angry. He has lost his income.
he was a teenager, and he and his family moved to Mickleover in 2013. Previously they lived in Normanton.
He said: “Once someone did break in, like kids stealing lollies. With my old van, people would break the windows to steal lollies so I put a padlock on it, and this van had a padlock on it so I don’t know how they broke it.”
According to Garry, the area is not known for this kind of crime. He and
Pally are now knocking on doors in the area trying to track down the van. “Why anyone
would steal an ice cream van, I don’t know,” said Pally. The Derby Telegraph has contacted Derbyshire Police for comment.
Son Pally SIngh