BY BEN KERRIGAN
Convenience store owner Oleksandr Grytesenko and his partner Egle Bucioniene,, are offering a £500 reward after fears their premises in Canning Town, could close following the theft of £20,000 in goods and cash.
Large sums of alcohol, cigarettes and cash were stolen from their shop in thee times- once in the early hours of March 8, March 12 and on Monday (April 11)
The owners have had to resort to bank loans and credit cards to make up his costs and provide for his family.
The distraught owner told the eye of media.com “We work so hard. We did not get any holidays over the last two years. We do not just run the shop, we have two jobs. Now we will have to work harder.
“I don’t feel safe here at all because I think they may come back It takes so much noise to open the shop’s metal shutters and I think people are scared to report it.”
His wife Egle, a mum-of-three who has an eight-year-old son with Oleksandr, told the eye of media.com “We are absolutely distraught as this has set us back alot. We have a family to feed, but this is so hard to adjust to”.
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