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Yobs pull apart flowers on ten-year-old's grave
THE MOTHER of a ten-year-old boy killed in a road accident has hit out the cruel yobs who are destroying the flowers she leaves on her son's grave.
Speaking to the Advertiser this week, Maureen Davis said sick vandals have been repeatedly pulling the tops off the flowers for almost three months.
And last week when she visited her son Matthew's grave at Brinsley Cemetery off Church Lane, all 12 flower heads had been pulled off and left strewn on the floor.
She said: "The other graves in the same area have got false flowers on, but I don't want to do that.
"Taking fresh flowers is something I've done for years and I don't want to stop doing it now.
"While I'm taking the flowers I feel I'm looking after him. That's how I feel.
"It really upsets me. It's knocked me for six. It's upset my whole family."
"I've been going down there for 16 years and nothing like this has ever happened before.
"I put flowers in every week and for the last two weeks literally every head has been pulled off."
The 63-year-old lives in Eastwood but her cousin Janet Enever lives in Brinsley and has put a sign on Matthew's grave warning people to stay away.
Mrs Enever said: "There is only one word to describe people who do things like this and that's scum.
"It's broken her heart. She's not in the best of health herself and this has made her feel even more ill."
Mrs Enever also said Mrs Davis had a signed photo of her son stolen from her purse in Eastwood not long ago and the grave vandalism was the final straw for her.
"With that happening and now this, it's knocked her for six," she said.
Matthew Davis was run over on Mansfield Road in 1991 aged 10.
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