16 - 22 Nov 2017
EXCLUSIVE By Matt Ford A Briton has warned expatriates and tourists to stay away from an Albir Playa shop. Jo Wright, 72, has owned a holiday home on the Costa Blanca for 12 years but recently sold the villa and rented a flat. And she suffered a ‘terrifying experience’ after trying to put credit on her mobile phone at Telc Shop on Avenida l’Albir. The business owner from Overstone in Northamptonshire said: “I’d been in the shop before and they were always very pleasant, but on this occasion there were different people inside. “I wanted to charge my phone, but when I handed it and the money to the woman behind the counter she began to take it apart. “When I asked why, she just ignored me.” But worse was to come as Jo was handed her phone back. “When I asked again why she had dismantled my phone, she screamed ‘F**k off back where you come from’ in perfect English, then started hitting me on the arm as I tried to put it in my bag.
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TELC SHOP: Refused to comment. “I said ‘why are you speaking to me like this, why are you doing this’ before a second woman and a man also started shouting. “I was so upset I started to cry
as I was very frightened, and all three then started to laugh at me saying ‘look at her she is crying F**k off out the shop’ and waving their arms at me.
“I said you have lost my husband and myself as customers I will never come back, and they replied there are cameras on the building and would report me for stealing if I made any trouble.” Jo was not even able to report the incident to police as there was no one at the station. “It was so frightening and I’ve never experienced anything like it, they were also swearing at a client when I first walked in.” When contacted by the EWN the shop’s phone was slammed down before any comment could be made.
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