The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Cash and charity jar stolen as owner of store is heartbroken
A hardware store owner is devastated after thieves broke in and stole thousands of pounds and a charity jar.
It is the second time in just over a year that the Carnoustie Fobel Shop on Park Avenue, owned by Kenny Watt and his partner June Finlay, has been raided.
Kenny said: “This is just devastating for us. Apart from anything else what kind of people steal a charity jar?
“It’s disgusting.
“We managed to keep working pretty much throughout lockdown and we thought we were doing OK and getting through this time, then this goes and happens.”
Kenny said he was woken up by police at 6am yesterday to tell him his shop had been broken into around four hours earlier.
Kenny said: “I have CCTV in my shop and that’s what alerted the police. It looks like three people in their 20s wearing hoodies were the culprits. They got in the front door and then smashed down an inside door to get into the shop.
“Then two carried out the thefts while one stood guard at the door.”
Kenny said that as well as some stock being taken, the thieves jimmied open a locked safe and stole a four-figure sum.
He said: “We don’t keep much in the shop obviously but there were a few thousand pounds in the locked safe. I can’t believe this has happened to us again, it’s just heartbreaking. It makes me wonder why we bother.”
Kenny said the shop will have to remain closed for at least a couple of days until police deal with the matter and he makes it secure.
Last June a man distracted staff before stealing a four-figure sum.