Two women have been barred from a community food bank after staff members said they saw them filling carrier bags of donated goods "six times in one day".
The duo were captured on CCTV at Newton Deli in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, on Saturday afternoon. In the footage, the women appear to fill up bags with donated canned food at the Newton Community Fridge – an initiative aimed at helping those in food poverty.
But staff claim the women returned to the store "six times in one day" each time filling multiple carrier bags - which has now led suspicious staff to ban them from the store.
Manager and owner of Newton Deli, Marc Faulkner, told the Liverpool Echo : "We have the whole community to cater for and we can't allow a selfish minority