AN ANGLESEY father was shocked to find that the playground used by his daughter had been attacked by vandals.
A large hole was torn in rubber safety flooring around swings a. t the playground at Lon Penmynydd, Llanfairpwll, on Tuesday night. Edward Parri Jones said that damage could endanger his daughter Tesni, four, if he took her there.
“The holes are so big that she could trip and God knows what could happen,” he said.
Mr Jones said that he gangs of youths regularly used the veranda of disused football club changing rooms to drink until the early hours of the morning.
“What kind of society are we going to have in the future if children they do this in a small, quiet village?”
Llanfairpwll Community Council clerk Anwen Jones said that she believed that children had made the hole from a smaller hole caused by hot weather.
The playground was renovated in 2008 and Mrs Jones said that the damage would strengthen North Wales Police’s application for CCTV in the playground.
She added that the cost of the damage will not be known until an estimate is received and that the police would be informed of the incident
“This is a needless cost to the council and to the tax payer in the long run,” she said.
“We have two swings out of action on the last day of the summer holidays and there are a lot of children here today."