Restoration relief after 'idiot scum' target cemetery

Thieves have made off with brass plagues on memorials at the Quorn cemetery in South Australia. (HANDOUT/SA Premier Peter Malinauskas shared on social media)

Grieving families won't be charged to replace more than 80 memorial plaques ripped from graves by callous thieves.

Vandals tore about 84 brass plaques from headstones and other memorials at Quorn cemetery, about 300km north of Adelaide, leaving many resting places bare.