Hotel rooms are trashed and £6,000 is stolen

1:10pm Thursday 15th May 2008

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GUESTS at a hotel in Alveston were left more than £6,000 out of pocket after a thief trashed three rooms.

Building contractors staying at the Premier Travel Inn, in Thornbury Road, discovered high-tech gadets, computers and power tools had been stolen from their rooms after returning from a night out.

The three workers, who were staying in the hotel while they completed a building project at Cribbs Causeway, are understood to have been devastated after the break-in on Saturday, May 10.

The burglar prized open double-glazed windows to all three of the ground-floor rooms sometime between 9pm and 1.15am.

The thief stole an ipod and a laptop worth £1,000 from one room and a Dell laptop, £250 in cash, a mobile phone and two games consoles worth £1,200 from another.

The thief stole power tools, an MP3 player, a Dell laptop and a Nokia mobile phone worth a total of £3,000 from the third room. Keys to a white Astra van, with the registration number T304 JTU, were also taken from that room and the thief made his getaway in the vehicle.

Thornbury neighbourhood policing Sgt Craig Ogborne said: "We don't know how the thief knew the rooms were empty. We fingerprinted the rooms and the points of entry and will fingerprint the van if we can find it.

"We are examining CCTV footage of the car parking area and are particularly interested in a small, white hatchback car that came into the car park at 11pm.

"We think the driver is the offender and would like to hear from anyone with any information."

Management at the hotel declined to comment on the thefts.

Contact police on 0845 456 7000 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.