A Dundee businessman has blasted travellers who caused a biohazard by leaving human faeces littered around Camperdown Park.
Gordon Topping, owner of Ice Topp Sports in Dayton Drive, was disgusted when he discovered human waste after the travellers left their temporary camp.
The camp had meant Gordon was denied access to a store behind Dundee Ice Arena for three weeks.
He said: “I have a store out of the back of the ice arena which I haven’t had vehicle access to because they were camped out on the road out there.
“They were there for about three weeks. They had been doing building works and garden works and had been dumping rubbish.
“We load and unload stuff around there. We couldn’t risk going around to the store in case there were any issues with them when they were there.
“They moved the last couple of caravans, their horsebox and horses last week so I finally got access.
“They have obviously been coming out of the caravan and doing the toilet at the back of the caravan. There were piles of human faeces on the road.
“It was absolutely disgusting.”
A city council spokesperson said: “Due to the hazardous state of the site, the council decided to take immediate action.
“We are contacting the owner to discuss the issue.”
Dundee is a common destination for travelling groups.
Earlier this week the Courier reported how travellers left the Keiller factory site on Mains Loan after the owners applied to court for their removal.
The owners, Bruce Linton, claimed the travellers where hampering repair work needing done before the site could be redeveloped.
In early September travellers also established an encampment just metres from a half-empty city council site designed specifically to house them.
Five caravans parked in a layby opposite the Balmuir Wood Traveller site at Tealing, which was not fully occupied.
Lord Provost Bob Duncan has announced plans to visit each of the sites frequented by travellers to see what measures the local authority could put in place to stop illicit camps being set up.