Disgust as vandals target girls’ grave

The parents of two Shropshire sisters who were killed in a car crash have been left devastated after their shared grave was vandalised in a county cemetery.

Fred and Joan Smith arrived at their daughters’ grave at St Matthew’s Church in Donnington, Telford, on Wednesday night, to find part of the headstone had been smashed off and the flowers removed by vandals.

Their daughters, Heather, 26, and 21-year-old Linda, died in a triple-fatal crash caused by a drink-driver on the A5 in 1993.

It is the second county cemetery to be targeted recently. Several graves at Castle Green in Ironbridge were also damaged.

Read the full story in today’s Shropshire Star.