Cemetery vandals are sick people

Published on 8th February 2007 in Letters

Sir - I am writing this letter with anger and frustration on going to the cemetery on Hook Road on February 4 to visit my son's and grandad's grave, as I do on a regular basis to place flowers for my son's birthday and remove Christmas wreaths, only to find when I went to my grandad's grave someone had stolen his pot of purple flowers from his headstone which was new at Christmas.

I know it's been very windy over the past few weeks and things have been blown but my family and I searched in vain to find these.

What made me realise they had been stolen was you had the cheek to put the miniature Christmas tree we also took with his wreath into the "hole" where his flowers should have been! Or did the wind manage to blow the Christmas tree into the hole, this being placed first on the floor?

This is not the first time things have gone missing from our family graves - how sick are you? I am sure we are the same as many more families, it's distressing enough without going and finding things have been stolen from your loved ones. Even when people are laid to rest you cannot leave them alone in peace, stealing what's not yours.

There's only one word that describes people like you - scum. How low can you get? Not much lower than stealing from the dead.

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