Mystery tractor left huge trail of human waste

There's a "poodunnit" mystery in Wales after stinking human excrement was slopped all they way along a main road as it was being transported by tractor between Capel Bangor and Clarach last week. Angry residents as far away as Aberystwyth have described living with a “dreadful” smell for much of last week and motorists say they were left with a lingering smell on their cars after the incident last Monday.



Yvonne O’Donovan lives at Morwenna, Blaen Ddôl, a row of houses along a particularly badly affected part of the route used by the tractor pulling a trailer full of foul-smelling faeces between Bow Street and Clarach. Mrs O’Donovan said she was alerted to the smell by her husband when he came home from work at 4.30pm, and even a trip to town didn’t allow them to escape the stench.

She said: “We parked up on the promenade in Aberystwyth and went for a walk, and when we came back, the car was stinking. I am a farmer’s daughter and it doesn’t smell like slurry, it smells like human waste. The smell is still on the car and I saw something on Facebook which said people’s cars were still smelling even after washing them. If it is human excrement, it is unhealthy. I think whoever is responsible should compensate people for having their cars cleaned.”



Thomas Scarrott, director of Clarach Bay Holiday Village, said his brother, Charles’ car had been covered in the suspected excrement after he picked his child up from a nursery near Penrhyncoch. Mr Scarrott said: “We all live next door to each other and the smell was engulfing the whole driveway - it smells like human excrement. My brother had to pay £40 to have his car cleaned and the smell is still lingering.” The council has appealed for witnesses.