A ram-raider used a stolen car to smash through the doors of a Spencers Wood beauty salon before escaping with a haul of stock.
Blissimi Hair Beauty and Medispa, in Basingstoke Road, was targeted by a man driving a stolen Fiat 500 car at around 5.20am on Wednesday, January 20.
Owner Laura Holt said the front doors of the salon had been completely destroyed, and a number of items of stock had been stolen. She stressed that it was business as usual at the salon.
She told The Wokingham Paper: “We have never been targeted before, this is the first time something like this has happened.
“The cost to repair the damage is running into the several thousand pounds mark, but we are not letting it affect our business, we have remained open.
“It is frustrating as we have just run a large marketing campaign and we are welcoming a lot of new customers, but we now have temporary doors at the front and had to ask clients to come through the back doors on Wednesday.
“It was very frustrating.
“The clients have been wonderful, it was the coldest day of the year and we had no doors for a few hours, but we provided everyone with fleecy blankets to keep warm.
“Some of our clients have sent us flowers and they’ve all said very positive things so we are very grateful for that.”
The robbery was caught on the business’s CCTV system, and shows a lone male ram-raiding the salon’s glass doors before making off with stock.
Anyone with any information which may be helpful are asked to call the Thames Valley Police enquiry centre on 101.
