Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet and Hobbycraft said he was asked for ID for buying an age-restricted product.

It is an offence to sell spray paints to people under the age of 16 to “reduce the incidence of criminal damage” caused by acts of graffiti.

A Welsh man has accused arts and craft retail chain Hobbycraft of racial profiling him after staff at the store’s Cardiff location refused to sell him spray paint. The incident took place on ...

A father from Cardiff says he was "racially profiled" while trying to buy spray paint at a branch of Hobbycraft. Louis Gray went to the store's Newport branch to buy the item for his four-year-old ...