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Heartless robbers hit Aberdeen charity office

Momentum Skills, Union Street, Aberdeen.
Momentum Skills, Union Street, Aberdeen.

Police in Aberdeen are hunting heartless thieves who broke into a charity’s office and made off with hundreds of pounds worth of electrical items and cash.

The Union Street base of Momentum Skills, which provides training to disabled people with a view to getting them into jobs, was targeted over the weekend.

Shocked workers arrived on Monday morning to find the premises damaged and computers and cash missing.

Now police have appealed for witnesses who noticed any suspicious activity around the office at 480 Union Street, near Holburn Junction, between 5pm on Friday, May 1, and 8am on Monday, May 4.

Constable Wightman, who is investigating the crime, said: “This area is normally busy with people visiting the various premises in Aberdeen city-centre.

“I would be keen to speak to anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity in the area.”

City-centre community council chairman Dustin Macdonald said it was “heartbreaking” that another charity had been targeted so soon after the raid on Rosie’s charity café in Rosemount.

The centre, which employs people with mental health issues and other conditions, had hundreds of pounds of donations stolen from it last week.

Mr Macdonald said: “It is terrible that anyone is being targeted but it’s especially horrible that it’s a charity.

“Thankfully thefts like this aren’t very usual in the middle of town.

“I hope they can make some progress on finding the people responsible and maybe even returning some of the stolen items.”

A spokeswoman Momentum Skills said: “We can confirm that the service in Union Street, Aberdeen was broken into over the weekend when it was empty and that a number of electrical items were taken as well as some petty cash.

“The service provides a range of supports to people with disabilities to help them find employment.

“The staff who work in the service are incredibly disappointed that something like this would happen and we are hopeful that some of the items may be recovered”.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.