Police investigation launched after man seen pooing in cemetery

Police in Hampshire are investigating after a man was seen defecating in a cemetery. Officers are conducting inquiries to find the man, who was spotted by a family visiting the graves of several relatives at St Mary Extra Cemetery in Butts Road, Southampton.

School pupil Millie Ings, 15, was visiting the cemetery, where several members of her family including grandfather Nelson Scott are buried, with her aunt and grandmother. However as they left the cemetery they spotted the man with his trousers around his ankles, defecating in a hedgerow at the cemetery.



Intending to report him to the police, she took pictures on her phone, at which point she says he swore at her. Millie, from Hedge End, said: “For a man to go to the toilet where people are buried is disgusting. I was absolutely disgusted to think that someone could actually do something like that. He might have problems but there is no excuse for what he has done, especially when there is a toilet two minutes’ away.”

Her mother, Sarah Ings, 39, said: “It’s vile. I don’t know what they can do but something should be done - if somebody drops litter they can be fined and this is just disgusting, there needs to be a form of punishment for it.” Community leaders have backed the investigation, with Southampton Itchen MP Royston Smith calling it “unacceptable behaviour that cannot be tolerated”. Anyone with information is urged to call the force.