Drug users left needles stuffed in to a grave vase at a Nottingham cemetery.
Council staff described the act as ‘disrespectful and disgusting’ after the needles were found and cleared by Community Protection Officers.
The needles were discovered in the vase on a large family memorial at Nottingham General Cemetery on Tuesday (October 24).
The council’s Operational Support Unit (OSU), which works alongside Community Protection, arranged the clean-up and contacted police.
Officers tweeted: “Disgusting & disrespectful! Big needle find in General Cemetery. Clean up arranged & detail of potential offenders supplied to police.”
The cemetery dates back to the 1830s and stretches from Canning Circus to Waverley Street.
It is the final resting place of more than 150,000 people, including over 300 war veterans, but is now closed to new burials.
The needles were left on the grave of the Bright family, which includes a memorial to a nine-year-old girl, Vera Marjorie Bright, who died in 1923.
The cemetery is also the resting place of John Player, who founded the cigarette company of the same name in Nottingham in 1877.
It is still maintained by Nottingham City Council, who are in charge of keeping the graves tidy and secure.
