It was with huge disappointment we discovered during our task day yesterday that the bench dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Roberta Louth and paid for by her husband Jerrold had been vandalised by someone carving the initials J + T 4EVA into the woodwork below the commemorative plaque and then filling them with ink. This contemptible action must have been very distressing for Mr. Louth when he discovered it last week and we wonder at how anyone can be so mindlessly ignorant of other people's feelings to do something like this.
We have taken photographs and will be reporting it to the police but will not pander to any potential exhibitionist tendencies by displaying them on this site. The section of timber has been removed from the bench today and will be replaced once it has been repaired.
We can only hope that this was an isolated incident which will not be repeated. However, our interpretation board near the library has also been damaged and graffiti is on the rise generally.
If you see anyone doing this kind of damage in the park please report it to the police.
