Grave robbers at Atherton (From Leigh Journal)

Grave robbers at Atherton

11:17am Thursday 24th November 2011 in Letters

I COULDN'T believe what happened on Saturday morning.

I took flowers to my parents' grave, and as is my usual practise I filled a bag with fallen tree leaves from around the grave. I them left the filled plastic bag, the still wrapped flowers and a large pair of scissors in front of the headstone while I went away to clean the grave pot.

I was away about five minutes however on my return I discovered that the leaf filled bag, the bunch of wrapped flowers and the scissors had gone. An opportunist thief or maybe someone who prays on unsuspecting people like myself?

If someone will do this, what other crimes are they capable of?

Len Sharrock Valentines Road, Atherton