Travellers move on to new Dundee site after leaving more expensive damage and mess behind

Travellers left rubbish and tore up the grass at a Dundee park before returning to an illicit site round the corner.

Bin bags, empty food packets, a chemical toilet, pieces of metal, wooden pallets and bricks were among the items discarded by the group after they left Mill O’ Mains Park on Sunday night.

Grass at the playpark was also ruined, with evidence of deep furrows made by travellers’ vehicles.

Having been issued with an eviction order on Friday, the travellers have now set up camp off William Fitzgerald Way in East Claverhouse.

A specialist council team had to be called into action last week after bags of excrement were dumped in the children’s play area of the park.

Travellers were also accused of throwing stones and intimidating children who tried to enter the park.

When The Courier visited the Mill o’Mains site last week, one man wished our photographer “a slow and painful death with cancer” and we were followed by a boy who picked up a shovel and threatened to smash the camera.

A Dundee City Council spokesman said: “We are arranging for the rubbish to be cleared as soon as possible.”

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