In each case pages have been horizontally ripped in half before being put back in place on the shelves in Herne Bay, Kent. The bibliophobe - dubbed "the book ripper" by customers - has struck at ...

“We wouldn't sell a book with one page ripped, so with 20 or 30, they're absolutely ruined,” Rogers tells BBC News. He estimates that the damage so far has deprived Demelza and its ...