Met Police detectives have released footage showing three yobs ransacking a Co-op shop in Southwark and stealing dozens of packets of cigarettes and scratch-cards. The incident where the suspects, also stole pouches of tobacco, happened in the south London store on Spa Road in Bermondsey in the early hours of the morning on 9 May.

More from IBTimes UK

CCTV at the rear of the shop caught the moment the men smashed the lower half of the glass front-door and then stormed the shop floor. They went behind the counter and put a quantity of tobacco, cigarettes and scratch-cards into a bag. The suspects then fled the shop with the goods.

One of the suspects captured on the CCTV cameras is described as a white man of slim built in his 20s, wearing a dark blue hooded top, blue jeans, dark shoes and white gloves. The second is described as of slim built, clean-shaven white man in his 20s. He was wearing a dark blue hooded zip-top, dark trousers, trainers and white gloves. The last man was also in his 20s and was wearing a dark brown cap, blue jumper, black trousers and black gloves.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police via 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting referrence 43484 (suspect 1) or 43485 (suspect 2) or 43486 (suspect 3).

Co-op burglary
Three men stole scratch-cards, tobacco and cigarettes from a Co-op in Bermondsey