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“Mindless vandalism at a normal time is unacceptable but to be doing it at a time like now is just awful.”

Those were the words of Oli Hicklin, a director at Bognor Motors, after four cars outside the business’ Christie Place garage were vandalised late last night (Monday, March 23), causing at least £2,000 worth of damage.

Oli added: “We’re just left disappointed that this would happen at a time when this country is supposed to be pulling together.

“We need to work together on this and treat each other fairly [but] at 11 o’clock on the night we’ve gone into lockdown, you get this.

Bognor Motors general manager Simon Davies (left) and director Oli Hicklin with one of the vandalised vehicles

“It’s very irresponsible and they should be observing the lockdown rather than running up the road and smashing vehicles up. It’s absolutely shocking.

“I was just devastated when I came in this morning when we are all trying to be positive for each other.”

Oli said staff are still working and serving customers during the coronavirus pandemic but on a ‘zero contact basis’.

“We are, at the minute, classed as an essential business so we are open and very much adhering to the government’s guidelines,” he said.

Police said the wing mirrors had been taken off two cars and the windscreens smashed off two other cars, all parked on the forecourt of Bognor Motors

Cars ‘smashed up’ outside Bognor business - ‘This is a time where we are supposed to be pulling together but we get this mindless vandalism’