A restaurant owner was forced to do his own detective work after police failed to attend a break-in at his business.
Ankit Vaghela was told by police to email them his evidence of the break-in because no officers were available to visit his Southampton restaurant after the early morning theft.
Thieves ransacked the business at around 4am, and Mr Vaghela had to pick up the pieces in the early hours of the morning.
He trawled the streets of the city centre, where he found stolen liquor bottles and a broken till drawer from the restaurant scattered on a nearby road.
Mr Vaghela says he is now thousands of pounds out of pocket after the group made off with around 20 bottles of alcohol and the till, which had £150 cash inside.
