PPAA Committee members were awoken at around 0230 this morning by the police ‘phoning. They were with the fire services on site. A structure had been on fire and the gate had been forced.
Owing to the method used to force entry to the site, it seems that the intrusion was a determined act and not casual criminality. (The Western Avenue gate will be modified to avert this apparent method of entry in future.)
We lament the severe distress that this must cause to the plot holders concerned – whom, we understand, the police have notified – and express our sincere compassion to them.
We haven’t inspected the rest of the site for evidence of further crimes as yet.
PPA Website Team
This is really awful. The lovely family that spend so much happy time on their plot must be devastated.
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Yes it truly is, Jon.
However, for the reasons given in the update I don’t think that this was intended as an act of hate against that family, but I must emphasise that this is a personal theory on my part.
It might not be connected, but a few years ago PPAA received an email asking intrusive questions about a number of matters, including about a particular person and their connection with the site under FOI (which does not apply to volunteer groups). Naturally it was ignored. However the sender’s email address was identified as that of an extremist, with convictions for political violence and other crimes. (He was a prominent BNP figure based near Swansea.)
Martin
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