Jonathon Jones pictured in Stepney Precinct where his hat full of money was stolen.
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A LLANELLI busker who had his hat, which has great sentimental value and was filled with the day's takings, stolen in the town centre has made an appeal for help tracking it down.
Jonathon Jones could not believe his eyes when he realised his flat cap — which belonged to his late granddad — had been swiped while he momentarily turned his back at Stepney Precinct at 4pm on Monday afternoon.
Police are investigating the theft after Mr Jones reported it to the force.
Reliving the afternoon's events, Mr Jones said: "I was doing my thing and someone asked me to do a song for them.
"It was going to be the last song for the evening and I turned my back to go and pick up my hat and count my money and it was gone.
"I was so angry that someone would even do that. My partner said they are 'the scum of the earth'.
"She is eight months pregnant and the only thing she was able to have that night was some cereal. I went without."
Mr Jones said he had earned roughly around £30 at the time, but stressed the most important thing for him was to recover the hat, which he describes as being a flat cap, with a brown, checkered pattern on it.
It has a label on the inside with a long-haired collie dog on it.
ABOVE: Jonathon Jones wearing his grandad's hat
Mr Jones, who can be regularly seen busking in Llanelli town centre or performing magic tricks, said: "It belonged to my grandad.
"My earliest memories of my grandad was him wearing it all the time.
"I had his hat and his cane when he passed away five or six years ago.
"I always felt when I had it that he was with me."
The 26-year-old, of Cwmfelin Road in Bynea, has been busking for the last three years, and said it is the first time anything like this has happened to him.
"Nobody has even attempted to take it," Mr Jones said.
"I have had people walk by and saying 'can I have a pound to buy a pasty' — and I've said 'yeah, no problem, here you go', but nothing like this — you just would not expect it to happen either.
"Now it's just made me really paranoid. It only happened on Monday and I'm looking like a hawk at where my money is all the time."
Encouraging anyone with information to come forward, Mr Jones added: "If anyone has even the slightest idea where it is, please get in contact with the police who are in charge of the case."
A police spokeswoman said: "Anyone with any information relating to this incident is asked to contact PC Evans 881 at Llanelli police station, or via 101."
Read more at http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/llanelli-busker-s-plea-as-grandad-s-hat-full-of-day-s-takings-taken-in-street-theft/story-29842216-detail/story.html#y5zRIYUHWpTSGvGB.99
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