Families in Invergordon were left “shocked” and in tears after a vandalism attack at the town’s graveyard. Seven gravestones at Roskeen Cemetery were covered with graffiti on the morning of Friday, July 12. 18-year-old resident Allan Marwick was riding his motorbike near the graveyard when a man told him graves had been vandalised.
Allan told the Press and Journal: “I went back home and told my mum, and she told me to go back to see how bad it was. “I returned to the graveyard and realised that one of them was my granny and grandad’s grave.” Allan’s neighbour Rena also had her husband’s grave headstone covered with graffiti.
The 78-year-old explained she started to cry when she saw the damage. “I didn’t think there were people in the world capable of doing something like that,” she said. Invergordon families ‘disgusted’ after graveyard vandalism attack Allan thinks everyone in the is “quite shocked” after the incident.
He and his mum Gillian had spent around three hours cleaning their family graves on Tuesday, just days before the vandalism attack. He continued: “I find it quite disgusting actually, because the cemetery is a place for people to pay their respect to their loved ones.” His mum, Gillian, 57, said she feels “disgusted.
” “I feel disgusted. I don’t know how people could do this; it’s hideous”, she said. On a happier note, she remembers her parents John and Anne as “great people with great sense of humour.
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