Richard Growden vents his anger at the flattening of Porlock Cemetery headstones in a video filmed by George Ody. - video Dailymotion

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00:00Now I came up here to visit my mother and my brother who were buried here in this cemetery.

00:07When I came up I saw nothing more than devastation and total and utter disregard for this graveyard.

00:16Fine stone memorials were told by the parish council to do a survey. They came up and did a

00:23survey and they also took down over 100 headstones just like what you can see.

00:32This is my mother's grave and when I came up here I found my mother's wooden cross placed onto the

00:38grave. They think that all these headstones that are leaning are dangerous and so they've taken

00:45every single one that they think except for the ones that they haven't been able to manage to do

00:51because it must have taken at least three people to turn and take some of these gravestones off.

00:57These gravestones some of them most of them aren't hurting anybody. A sign effectively at the entrance

01:05saying danger please be aware loose stones would have sufficed. They could have put a small tag on

01:13every single gravestone and that tag could have identified that it needed work doing to it.

01:19But instead they decided to come in here and tip down without complete and utter disregard for anybody,

01:28any of the families, any of the relatives and they decided to knock them down and make it look like

01:35it's completely and utterly been vandalized. They've had no sensitivity and no and no compassion

01:43at what they have done here. This is a total and utter disregard for people.

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