A vandal spotted on CCTV defacing the front of a Dundee florists may be behind a spate of spray-paint attacks throughout the city.
A distinctive orange and light blue signature was scrawled across businesses in the Strathmartine Road area during the early hours of Sunday.
Forget Me Not Florists was targeted in the attack, along with newsagents, a bus shelter, a pub and a bank note machine at the TSB branch on Strathmartine Road.
The award-winning florists released footagefrom the incident on Sunday, after the shop and others in the Coldside area were hit by the vandal.
The owner, Dawn Falconer, posted the footage with the belief it could help catch the perpetrator.
Ms Falconer told The Courier that she took great pride in how clean her shop was, both inside and out, and that she was very upset about having been targeted.
“I was contacted after uploading the footage by others from across Dundee who had also been hit during the night,” she said.
“Cars in Ardler and a shop on Milnbank Road seem to have also been spray-painted.
Several cleaning businesses in the area also contacted me after the video went up offering to clean the graffiti from the shop for free. I hope he gets caught, graffiti is not something people should have to put up with.”
Ms Falconer also said that she has been contacted by a member of the public who had met a man fitting the description of the graffiti vandal in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The man told the woman that he was under the influence of drugs and was then heard to “boast” about having cans of spray-paint in his rucksack and that he was planning to carry out graffiti tagging.
A number of other graffiti tags, which share the colour and style of the ones on Strathmartine Road, are visible in other areas of the city.
The blue and orange spray paint signatures are visible on the shutters of Peaches and Pearls Boutique on Milnbank Road and an advertising billboard outside the Co-op shop on Brook Street.
Councillor Fraser Macpherson said that graffiti vandalism was “completely mindless” and that it is not just localised to Dundee but a Scotland-wide issue.
He said: “Graffiti is damaging to public property.
“The council have a rapid response team that deals with graffiti and the police hold a database of regular tags that appear.
“I am pleased that the police and the council respond quickly to issues of graffiti.”
A spokesperson for Police Scotland said that inquiries are ongoing in relation to the graffiti tagging on Strathmartine Road.