A shop owner has been told by police to remove a sign branding thieves as ‘scumbags’.

Rob Davies, 61, who runs Run Ragged, a shop selling retro vintage items in Wrexham, North Wales, installed a notice warning shoppers he had lockedcabinets due to a recent spate of thefts.

He said he had lost around £280 due to shoplifting alone in the last year, during which he had caught five thieves in the act.

The sign read: ‘Due to scumbags shoplifting, ask for assistance to open cabinets. Thank you.’

However officers took a different view, telling the store owner that his notice was ‘provocative and potentially offensive’.

But Mr Davies has remained defiant he will not change the message despite being advised by police to reword it. He insisted that the only people who should be offended by his

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