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By Martyn Fisher

Friday 2nd October 2015, 15:03 GMT North Wales apple growers suffer spate of thefts

Police making enquiries after a spate of thefts, with one grower calling the situation "annoying"

mysterious fruit thief who has He added: “The grass doesn’t appear to have Sergeant Rob Taylor, of North Wales A been stripping businesses' apple been disturbed in any way. Maybe the Police’s Rural Crime Team, said: “We take and plum trees in the Conwy aliens have landed and are nicking the all rural crime seriously and ask the public Valley has struck again. apples. to be vigilant and ring 101 if they see suspicious activity.” Over the last month, trees have been “I also know a mate whose 30 trees in stripped of their fruit in Trefriw, Rowen, Llanddoged have been hit. He’s lost every Tyn y Groes, Tal y Bont, Llanddoged and apple and isn’t very pleased. What’s really Dolgarrog, according to the Daily Post. odd about this whole thing is that the apples are useless, as they weren’t ready for One of the targets was Glyn Farm Cider, use until the end of October." whose owner, Glyn Griffiths, told the Daily Post apples from nine trees were taken The last couple of weeks have also seen the from his field: “When the apple thefts thief strike at a property in Henryd, where started taking place, I was getting jokey three trees were stripped of their apples. text messages from my mates, asking me for their apples back because of our cider Hugh Jones, whose apples were taken, told operation,” he said. the Daily Post: “I read about the theft in the Daily Post and went to look at our apple “All the apples from these nine trees are trees. I couldn’t believe it as there wasn’t a completely gone, and what’s really strange single apple left. is there’s not even an apple left on the ground. It’s annoying, as they could have “The trees had been laden with apples. It’s gone on to make 120 litres of cider." very odd and unsettling thinking someone had been in our garden.”

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