A PUB landlord has hit out at ‘mindless’ vandals after his summer flower display was destroyed in the night.

Kevin Divall, one of the landlords at The Rising Sun, in Chapel Hill, took to Facebook this morning after discovering the pub’s flower display had been ruined by vandals yesterday evening, August 8.

Posting a picture to Facebook, Kevin said: “Thank you to the mindless moron who did this, we try and make the front of the pub look nice and this happens. Why?? I hope you are pleased with yourselves.”

After a difficult year for the hospitality industry, Kevin’s wife had spent “a lot of time and a lot of money” trying to boost the appearance of the pub to ‘brighten up’ chapel hill.

Speaking to the Gazette, Kevin explained: “ My wife spent so much time trying to get the flowers nice and to make the pub look as best we can. But it has got to a point where you think it’s pointless trying to make things look nicer."

He belives the attack was carried by a disgruntled customer who he had prevously told off for picking flowers.

He said: "It happened after close last night. We did have a woman in her twenties go past yesterday and she grabbed a whole load of flowers. I had a go at her because she just yanked the flowers out and of course this then happened later on in the night. I don’t want to jump to conclusions but it’s a coincidence. 

“I can’t comprehend the sheer mindlessness of it. I mean what did they hope to get out of it? A lot of time and a lot of money was spent doing the flower display and they were just coming into full show. It is so frustrating and extremely upsetting.  I would just really like the person who did it to feel some remorse about it.”