Vandals attack Manor Park shopfronts with paintballs
Businesses in Manor Park are counting the cost after vandals attacked their premises with paint.
Large balls of white paint appear to have been thrown directly at shopfronts in High Street North, as well as on the pavement and at a bus stop.
The perpetrators, who carried out the mindless acts overnight on March 5 to 6, have not been caught.
Sumathi Thiru, owner of Lakshmi Jewellers, said two young men were spotted on CCTV committing the offences in the early hours.
She said: “The paint is oil so we are going to have to pay someone to clean it up, I’m not sure how much it will cost yet.
“We only put our sign up a couple of years ago. Customers have been asking us about it.
“This area is getting worse and worse. It is not as bad as it was four or five years ago though.”
Most Read
- 1 School which has nine-hour days praised as 'outstanding'
- 2 Men jailed after violent beating with steering wheel lock caught on dashcam
- 3 Remembering speedway at West Ham Stadium 50 years on
- 4 Seven men charged following cannabis factory fight
- 5 Stratford roof-terrace restaurant destroyed by late-night fire
- 6 'Immensely gratifying': Newham college celebrates upping Ofsted grade
- 7 Major tube strike to follow Queen's Platinum Jubilee long weekend
- 8 The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee flypast: Where, and when, the planes will fly over north and east London
- 9 VOTE: Which east London fish and chip shop is your favourite?
- 10 Man held in murder probe after woman fatally stabbed in Custom House
Endip Rai, manager of Fast Track Mortgages, called the vandalism “a bit of shock”.
But it did not quite grab the attention of all the stores. One worker from Bluebird Estates Limited said she had not even noticed.