Charity box thieves caught on camera

A CHARITY box has been stolen from a busy Thame butcher’s shop after thieves cut the string securing it.

The charity box, which the shop owner, Tom Newitt said raises between two and three hundred pounds a year for MacMillan Cancer Support, is suspected to have been taken by a couple seen behaving suspiciously by other customers.

The theft was however caught on the shop’s CCTV and an image of the suspected thieves is currently being prepared to be distributed to the media and local businesses.

Tom Newitt told ThameNews.Net today: “Its just unbelievable that anyone could do such a thing as take a charity box. The money is donated by our customers who come in for a bone for their dog, or to have their knives sharpened and odd things like that which we don’t charge for and just ask them to put something in the charity box. Or they come in for their lunch and put their change from the cost of a sausage roll or something in the box.”

Another member of Newitt’s staff said that her and her colleagues felt “disgusted”, especially since children come into the shop and actually give some of their pocket money to the charity.

Staff are continuing to accept money for MacMillan Cancer Care while they await a replacement, official charity box.

NB As soon as the CCTV image of the suspected thieves is available, it will be published on ThameNews.Net