A shameful disgrace

Madam – Cemetery shameful disgrace.

My family, grandmother, uncle, mother and grandson were laid to rest in the Hardwick Street Cemetery. Church services were conducted there, headstones erected in memory of our loved family passed on to higher places.

Expenses were ours, we ignored, as this was considered a final gift to our loved ones no longer with us. I write not only for me but also other folk who laid deceased friends and family there.

Through the Newcastle Advertiser we read and see (photographs) of the desecration and disregard by the living. We ask ‘who are you?’ Who have decided to make a place of peace and tranquility into a place of recreation, whoring, drinking and destination shortcuts?

You have turned our cemetery into a place of disrespectful cavorting. A place where we (and possibly angels) fear to tread!

What gain do you get from this shame? What joy when you blatantly destroy?

We thank the media for this information and the municipality for cutting the grass. However, to you the destroyer we say – “Lest you forget,” this may also be the place where you may be finally laid to rest!

Disgusted