Friday 3 February 2023

Headstones Vandalised in Suspected Hate Crime

BY OLIVIA DILLON 

Investigators are appealing for information after 10 headstones were vandalised in Maitland last week, in a suspected hate crime.

Port Stephens-Hunter Police officers were called to a cemetery on Louth Park Road in South Maitland last Tuesday 31st of January, and found 10 headstones had been spray-painted with a Nazi symbol.

A crime scene was established and a number of seized items will be forensically examined.

Police are urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.