A WOMAN from Evesham who has been battling a brain tumour has had her new business premises vandalised with graffiti.

Tracy Hampton, who in 2016 was diagnosed with a brain tumour which she will have to live with for the rest of her life, owns the homemade chocolate bouquets business Just Sweet Treats and memorial business, Just Memorials.

She moved her two businesses into Unit 15, on St Richards Road in Evesham last Saturday, May 1.

When she arrived to work on Monday morning (May 10), she found the door and signs on the unit covered in graffiti.

Following the incident, Tracy said: "After all this effort to open here someone has graffitied my business, and it looks like I’m the only one targeted so I think it’s clearly an attack on me.

"The police were called and are investigating - the graffiti has been put on the door and through my signs on the wall.

"It was quite the shock when I turned up to work and saw it on Monday morning; devastating to be honest, but they won’t bring me down.

"A lady on Facebook said she drove past the unit at 6.50am on the morning and the graffiti wasn’t there at that time."

Tracy started her businesses during lockdown after receiving treatment for her condition.

After her diagnosis, Tracy's tumour was producing excessive growth hormones and caused a condition called Acromegaly, which has life changing effects, including enlargement of the hands and feet, forehead and nose.

She was told operating on the brain tumour would be too dangerous and she has been left with lifelong health conditions, two of which can be life threatening.

Despite her ordeal, she started her businesses with the help of her family and friends, and said: “The only thing I have been able to put in is blood, sweat and tears, but hopefully it will be worth it."

Following the incident on Monday, a spokeswoman for West Mercia police, said: "We were called at 9am yesterday about graffiti on a sign and door at the premises.

"The incident has been allocated to the safer neighbourhood team to establish any investigating opportunities and offer reassurance to the victim."

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