£30,000 worth of scooters stolen from Sheffield business just days after it opens
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Gordon Riley, 49, only welcomed the first customers to Yorkshire Electric Scooters on Leeds Road in Attercliffe this week, but thieves struck just eight minutes after he left the premises on Friday evening at around 7.10pm, stealing every item of stock inside.
He said: “It happened on Friday night and Saturday morning. It started about 7.20pm until the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Hide Ad"They were watching me. I’ve only been established for one month.”
No fewer than 34 scooters were taken by three females and 10 males, who were caught on CCTV, at various points through the night.
Three males initially broke in before more thieves were seen driving up to the shop in a car.
South Yorkshire police have confirmed they are investigating the incident.
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Hide AdGordon, who lives in Derbyshire, set the business up with redundancy money from his previous job at Hewlett-Packard. His first member of staff was due to start work on Saturday.
Now he faces an anxious wait to see if his insurers will cover the losses.
Gordon said: "I’m gutted.
“I have been ill and have not worked for over five years and I thought I would try and give back, employ people and hopefully become bigger and better over time.”
All the scooters have the distinctive name KUGOO on them and anyone with information should contact South Yorkshire Police on 101, quoting 14/168452/20.