Skeleton left on view as grave is desecrated by vandals at Hull cemetery
VANDALS who desecrated a grave left a skeleton on view in a city cemetery.
Police and council officers are investigating the vandalism at Northern Cemetery in Chanterlands Avenue, west Hull.
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'DISTRESSING': Northern Cemetery.
It is understood the grave held the body of a person buried in 1946.
The vandals are believed to have moved a concrete slab of a raised vault, creating a hole the skeleton could be seen in.
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It was discovered by a man who was visiting a nearby grave with his wife and daughter.
The man, who asked not to be named, said: "You could see the skull and down to its shoulder bones just as you walked past it.
"It didn't bother me too much, but my daughter has been quite traumatised. She has had nightmares about it ever since.
"There were three paving flags, and one of them had been moved so you could see inside. The body hadn't been disturbed or anything, it could just been seen.
"My wife went and got one of the staff from the cemetery and they had a look and said it seemed suspicious."
The vault was irreparable and was removed by council staff.
The area has been recovered with soil.
Council staff have been attempting to contact the family of the deceased since the vandalism was discovered on November 28.
Andy Brown, city customer services manager at the council, said: "This is very distressing and upsetting for everybody involved, including those staff who acted immediately to make the area safe and respectful.
"We have informed Humberside Police in order to attempt to find those responsible.
"Our bereavement services team and local policing teams will continue to inspect the cemetery grounds and crematorium regularly to maintain safety and dignity.
"We urge any witnesses to this act of vandalism or other inappropriate behaviour at our cemeteries or crematorium to contact our bereavement services team."
Officers from Humberside Police are investigating the attack and are appealing for witnesses.
Anyone with information about the vandalism should call the council's bereavement services team on 01482 614976 or Humberside Police on 101.
Comments
by x28jon
Monday, December 31 2012, 9:39PM
“There is no respect today for life ofor death The do gooders Tony Blairs Health and Safety human rights etc (which earned Cherie a good few bob ) have ruined society for the people who still respect others. Our Governments past and present don't give a toss for the woring man (woman) only what's in it for me and as long as it's in someone else's back garden.
Judges are on another planet and show more regard for the criminal than the victim . Immigratation (and please do not waive the racial prejudice flag at me cos thats not what I am saying ) has been allowed to go unstemmed and caused massive problems and feelings of unrest
I am sorry for the youngsters of today as I feel eventually we will see a civil war ..a frightening thought but in conversations with educated people who are not racial prejudice but can see the problems agree that cw is a great possibilty”
by watchintelly
Tuesday, December 11 2012, 12:11AM
“Maybe the youths or whoever should be stripped and buried alive or whatever.”
by watchintelly
Tuesday, December 11 2012, 12:04AM
“Hull smells of chocolate or death LOL”
by ArthurHunt
Monday, December 10 2012, 11:22PM
“Totally sympathise with anyone who has relatives buried there, but in today's lunatic, selfish, pro-criminal, pro-low life, society (all courtesy of the middle class do-gooders in non-jobs) anyone can get away with anything, no matter how disgusting, how low, how evil, it's all a joke to the political elite with their heads stuck in the sixth form common room of the 1980s.....
Bear in mind the political elite and top civil servants get paid the same whether they opt for an easy life (which they have) or if they get a grip of low life (which they won't as they have sided with scum and given them 'Human Rights') so we the people end up having to put up with vile acts such as this as crime and p*ss taking low life now have the upper hand - because we all forget the simple rules of life:
Streetwise slippery characters can run rings round wittering academics in top jobs any day
Decent well educated people are too easy going and frightened to get a grip of scum
If we intellectualise and talk about a problem for long enough it will go away
Undermine the decision making of Parliament by joining the EU gives the top people an excuse for doing nothing
What our forefathers died and sacrificed themselves for was a complete waste of time - Blair has seen to that!”
by staceyyoung
Monday, December 10 2012, 10:33PM
“this is very disgusting, these people should be caught, five of my deceased family are there within the cemetery and this has made me feel physically sick at what these vandals have done, please help catch these criminals and bring them to justice.”
by Redjin
Monday, December 10 2012, 2:19AM
“I can only assume the vandals have not lost someone they care about yet. I would like to think that they do it due to ignorance, not realising the hurt they cause to remaining family members. As a teen, a male friend stole some flowers from a grave in this cemetary and gave them to a female friend of mine. I told her where they came from and to this day she refuses to speak to me because 'I ruined the moment' lol.
In all honesty I had assumed that the vaults would contain coffins rather than bare bodies. Am I being naive thinking a coffin buried in 1946 would not have decomposed by now?”
by steveodore
Sunday, December 09 2012, 9:21PM
“The damage caused by vandals pales to insignificance when compared to the damage done by HCC employee's all in the name of H&S.
Some parts of the cemetery on Chants Ave look like they have suffered an earthquake.”
by chillo52
Sunday, December 09 2012, 3:01PM
“SSSKIAATHULL,
What a complete P**K you are everything that is wrong about society today.”
by Whitey1978
Sunday, December 09 2012, 7:10AM
“Sorry but if I ever caught them doing that to my nana's grave I'd make sure that they were in the next plot.”
by cazmarelda
Saturday, December 08 2012, 1:47PM
“When we were children we use to play in the old cemetery on Spring Bank West there were skeletons on view there and we use to play in one vault that was empty (do not know where the inhabitant went). On a hot summer day it was a beautiful place to go and we never did any harm - although we did not realise the sanctity of it back then - hence 'pretending to be dead and laying in the empty vault'.
We use to scare ourselves silly - which was all part of the fun.
I use to love looking round graveyards for the social history when I was older and would still do so if able to. I may though pay a visit to the Spring Bank West cemetery in the spring it would be nice to spend sometime in the sunshine and reflect on the memories of childhood.
We never took anything from the cemetery unlike people nowadays who steal of graves. I just bought a little remembrance book with a poem for my mums grave at Northern but thought better of it and have placed it in my little lavender garden at home instead and will put any other tokens of remembrance in this garden also.”