Patrick O'Neill, the owner of the Cambridge Mostyn Restaurant, accused the yobs of causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage
Yobs were filmed mindlessly vandalising signs outside a Llandudno restaurant on a night a large gang of men was barred from the town’s pubs.
Patrick O'Neill, the owner of the resort’s Cambridge Mostyn Restaurant, accused the yobs of causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to his signs in an incident caught on CCTV.
A group of 17 men, thought to be from Flint, descended on Llandudno on Easter Sunday, smashing signs and kicking pub doors after being singled out by the resort’s Pub Watch scheme.
Police eventually saw the group onto a minibus and away from the scene.
Mr O’Neill said: “There were five police cars and they had coralled a group across the road by HMV.
“I looked at my CCTV footage and I saw it was 9.40pm when they were assaulting our signs.
“There were four damaged at £600 each, and we need them to attract customers because we have no ground floor frontage.
“Without all my signs, I could lose up to £6,000 trade over the next three days.
“This has happened three years on the trot.”
The group was ejected from Bar 147 after becoming rowdy, and Pub Watch and the town’s CCTV system were alerted.
Yobs were then captured on CCTV kicking and breaking the restaurant signs and they were refused entry to Wetherspoons, The Town House and the London pubs.
Jimmy Mann, licensee of the King’s Arms, said the yobs kicked their doors after being refused entry.
“We got told by the Pub Watch they had been refused by another bar in town,” he said.
“I instructed the staff to close the doors, turn the outside lights off and not let them in.
“When they were refused, they started to kick the door. We had customers in here.”
Staff called the police, who held the group across the road from the pub and dispatched them via minibus.
A North Wales Police spokeswoman said: “We had a report of criminal damage in Llandudno just before 10pm on Sunday by a large group of men.
“Our investigation is ongoing to identify those responsible for causing the damage.
“If anyone has any information, call 101 and ask for Llandudno police.”
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/watch-yobs-vandalise-llandudno-restaurant-11104668
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