Takeaway owner hit by burglars furious with GMP - after HE gets £230 charge

19.02.2022 - 22:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A business owner has hit out at police after he was saddled with a £230 bill for boarding up a broken window following a late-night break in.

Anil Ozdemir, owner of Tony’s Chippy, in Rochdale, is furious cops called out a contractor rather than contacting him after thieves struck last month.

The dad-of-four says his shop, in Oldham Road, has been burgled more than a dozen times, with the latest incident taking place during the early hours of Friday, January 14.

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Anil, who lives in nearby Chadderton, says he had previously come to secure the shop ‘straight away’ after being alerted by police.

But on this occasion, it was only when he went to work the following day that he realised a crime had been committed - and his broken window had been ‘boarded up’ by a third party.

And the 43-year-old was stunned to receive an invoice for the work a few weeks later, charging him £234 for the work.

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Anil believes it is ‘disgusting’ and ‘unfair’ to charge small local businesses for work they neither requested or gave permission for.

“We turned up in the morning, nobody had contacted us from the police, and the window had been broken,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

“A couple of