“Vile scumbags” daub swastika on Melton’s historic St Mary’s Church

A prominent member of Melton’s St Mary’s Church has described vandals who daubed a swastika on the historic church “vile scumbags”.

Parts of the Leicestershire church date back to 1170, with the member writing on social media: “To desecrate a House of G-d seems pretty low. Thank you so much for doing this, you vile scumbags.”

Others were also disgusted, with several members calling the vandalism “absolutely horrendous”, “shocking” and “disgusting”, and another saying that the incident should be treated as a “hate crime”.

It is understood that there are plans to remove the graffiti as soon as possible.