Locals have been left fuming after a massive pile of rubbish was dumped at the gates of a cemetery. The huge flytip appeared outside Gorton Cemetery in Manchester and is the latest in a spate of grime crimes to plague the local neighbourhood.
Residents are so fed up of the state of their streets they have taken to litter-picking in a bid to tackle the scourge.
Sandra Kaur, 31, who lives near the cemetery, said: “When I saw the garbage outside the entrance I couldn’t believe it. I have friends who have people buried in that area and for someone to think it’s acceptable to dump that much rubbish outside a cemetery is absolutely disgraceful.
“Who would do something like this? Who the **** do you think you are? I’m raging and so are some other neighbours. This is a place of respect and where the dead are resting.”
Ms Kaur said the mess included a toilet, bags of manure and leather straps, telling whoever did it: “Have some shame.”
The dumping of the waste comes after a mother from Gorton had her daughter’s grave vandalised in the cemetery with flowers torn and lights around the headstone snapped and footprints all over a cross.
A member of the Gorton community, who was not named, said: “I read the report on the grave being defiled a few weeks ago and now this? What the hell is going on? This is sick and evil. We need to find out who is doing this.”
They told the Manchester Evening News: “It’s becoming more worrying because this never happened in the past. Yes people stole, fly-tipped and other bad stuff, but doing this at a cemetery?
“It’s the younger generation thinking they can just come and do stuff like this without repercussions.”
Residents vowed on social media to put a stop to the fly-tipping, with one saying they might set up a doorbell camera to catch the culprits.
Lee-Ann Igbon, a councillor and Manchester Council’s Executive Member for Vibrant Neighbourhoods, said: “It is disgraceful someone had the gall not only to flytip a significant amount of waste, but to do it in proximity to a cemetery.
“We will do our utmost to track down the perpetrator and bring them to justice. As a council we work hard to investigate all acts of reported flytipping and remove them as swiftly as possible.”
