Store bans a boy of two for wearing his 'hoodie'

A boy has been banned from a shop because he was wearing a hood - at the age of two.

Jay Cowper was muffled up against the cold but he and his grandfather were told they had to leave their local store.



Monkton Road Stores which serves the well-to-do Huntington area of York, is only a five-minute walk from the family home but it was a cold and windy night so Jay was wrapped up in a brown Next jacket with a furry hood.

Jay's grandmother Brenda Cowper said: "No sooner had they got inside than the shopkeeper said to my husband, 'Could you ask the little boy to remove his hood?'

"My husband said, 'He's only two and a half, I don't think he's going to rob you!'"

Mr Cowper, 51, refused on principle to take Jay's hood down and left the shop. He then had to drive to another shop, a Spar, to buy his cigarettes.

Update: There's a news report featuring Jay the dangerous hoodie here.