Staff and business-owners at Mumbles Pier are reeling with further hurt and disappointment after discovering thieves allegedly broke into a restaurant destroyed by fire and stole scrap metal and alcohol from behind the bar, just one day after a blaze destroyed the building.
A spokesperson for Mumbles Pier said owners Bert and Fred Bollom and their staff headed down to the site today to start clearing up the rubble and debris from the fire - which they'd previously labelled "devastating" - but were left even more shocked and saddened after discovering that people had broken past the barriers overnight and taken advantage of the incident which saw palls of thick black smoke over Swansea Bay.
"Last night people went down to the site and took all the valuable scrap from the demolition and the alcohol from behind the bar," the spokesperson said. "We're really saddened, they're opportunists that have taken advantage of the situation."
