A DELICATESSEN has been burgled for the fourth time in a year.
A youth was captured on CCTV smashing a patio door to gain entry to Basilia, in Langley Mill, ay 7.45pm last night.
Once inside he searched the shop and took money from a charity box and some food.
Owner Roma Bothamley was alerted to break-in last night.
She said: "We were broken into in April, May and June last year and now we have been targeted again.
"It really is soul destroying for us as we are a local business which employs a dozen local full-time and part-time people and someone like this feels the need to do something like this.
"He got inside and was clearly looking for cash and made an awful mess while he was doing so.
"We were here until gone midnight clearing up and then had to open again at 7am for our customer."
Ms Bothamley said the shop, in Cromford Road, was opened in September 2012.
She said the insurance company the firm was with went into liquidation and it has taken her almost a year to get cash from last years break-ins from a separate source.
She said: "When things like this happen it is just difficult to keep momentum going for the business and makes you wonder if it is all worthwhile."
Police have viewed CCTV image of the youth breaking in.
He is seen entering the garden at the rear of the shop before smashing the patio doors open and crawling inside.
He was wearing a green and black hoodie and made his escape on a white BMX bike.
Anyone with information should call the police on 101.
