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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Thomas George

Anger at cemetery as vandals trash World War Two veteran's grave while others left covered in bags of drugs and dog poo

Heartless vandals trashed the grave of a World War Two veteran at a cemetery in north Manchester. A group of youths are believed to have targeted several graves at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Moston last Sunday (June 26).

Karol Kamil Peruta discovered the damage in the Polish section of the cemetery, off Moston Lane, the next morning. A sculpture on one grave was 'destroyed' while litter including dog excrement, empty beer bottles and snap bags of drugs were strewn across others.

"I have no idea what happened," said Mr Peruta, who looks after the cemetery's Polish graves in his free time. "I came to put a few new plaques on the graves and noticed empty beer bottles on the road and on the graves.

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