Scots mum whose soldier son was killed in Iraq slams vandals who smeared 'cowards' over war memorial
A campaigning Scots mum whose soldier son was killed in Iraq has slated thugs who desecrated a war memorial.
Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Basra in 2004, was furious after vandals defaced the monument to the dead in Motherwell’s Duchess of Hamilton Park.
They used a red marker to write “cowards”, “scum of the earth” and “rats” over the memorial, which is at the heart of the town’s Remembrance Day service every year.
It came days after the nation remembered the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when our Armed Forces stormed the Normandy beaches to fight Hitler on June 6, 1944.
Rose said on social media: “What is it with these people?
“No matter what you are or what you believe in, there is no need for this.”
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Cammy MacLeod of veterans charity Who Dares Cares said: “It is outrageous. There seems to be a spate of these things happening.
“For someone to go out and do this days after the D-Day commemorations is an utter disgrace.”
Pictures of the damage triggered fury on social media. Jacqueline Lafferty said: “Disgusting and disrespectful.”
Nancy Willis added: “This is sickening. To think that these brave people have given their lives for the freedom these vandals now enjoy.