Norwich cops crackdown on graffiti amid Haymarket tagging

City cops made three arrests during increased patrols last week including a man in his 60s, one in his 40s and another in his 20s.

It comes amid a spate of crimes in Norwich which have seen the vacant former Topshop store tagged with graffiti urging owners Morrisons to "move in or move over".

Officers made the first arrest on Wednesday, where the man in his 60s was arrested in connection with graffiti on a property in Riverside Road.

He was charged with criminal damage and is due to appear at Norwich Magistrates Court on August 30.

Graffiti on the front of the former Topshop store (Image: Newsquest)

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Then on Thursday a man in his 40s was arrested in connection with criminal damage following tagging on a home in Prince of Wales round at about 9.45pm.

Police made their third arrest in the early hours of Friday when a man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on to a building in Haymarket.

It is thought this building is the former Top Shop store.

Vandalism at the Whiffler Theatre in Castle Gardens (Image: Newsquest)

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Both of these men were given caution for the incidents.

Police say they have been inundated with reports of graffiti from city folk in Snap (Safer Neighbourhood Action Panel) meetings and to officers on the beat.

Graffiti has been urging Morrisons to move in or move over (Image: Newsquest)

Other graffiti incidents in Norwich have seen anti-migrant graffiti sprayed close to the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe and new 5G equipment boxes in St Clements Hill vandalised.

Anti-social behaviour in Norwich parks including graffiti has been selected by city folk as a police priority in recent Snap meetings.

This came after a number of incidents in Castle Gardens which even saw the seats of the open-air Whiffler Theatre ripped up, with the theatre itself sprayed.