Cash machine smashed up in raid on Baba Jaga shop on Laisteridge Lane

The owner of the Baba Jaga store said robbers destroyed the fridges and shelves before pouring alcohol into the tills and pouring vodka over everything in the shop.

Komar Mardan, owner of the store, said he discovered the damage on Thursday morning when he went to open up.

He said: "It was very shocking, so many things were all over the floor.

"There are just too many things that have been broken and I've had to throw them all in the bin. I had to go and buy two new tills. I think with the damage and what has been taken is going to cost me more than £8,000."

Komar, 25, said the gang broke in through a blocked up back door before demolishing the cash machine and taking more than £2,000 from the shop's tills.

"I closed the store myself at 11pm on Wednesday and the CCTV shows them entering the store at 11.20pm. I think they were watching and waiting for me to go home," said Komar.

"The cash machine was so smashed up that there were pieces of it out in the back garden.

"They poured alcohol into the tills and on the floor - everywhere. Everything was covered in vodka.

"They took all the cigarettes and expensive alcohol - vodka, whiskey and champagne - one of the bottles cost £50."

Komar said CCTV shows three suspects entering the store dressed in dark clothing and with their faces covered.

He said they spent about 40 minutes inside the shop but he could not see any tools or weapons were used.

Komar, who has run the shop for the past two years and has two young children, said paying to restock the shelves and repair the damage was going to cause him some hardship.

Staff and friends have helped him clean up the store and it has now reopened.

He said: "Friday is a busy day so I didn't want to stay closed.

"I was shocked, nothing like this has ever happened to the shop before.

The staff have been helping and luckily everybody is ok."

Anyone with information can call police on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.