Targeted attacks a huge worry for Suffolk club
Woolpit Cricket Club suffer arson attack causing up to £10,000 damage to equipment
A CRICKET club fears arsonists who destroyed their ground's storage sheds, causing up to £10,000 damage, may strike at the club's £120,000 new pavilion. Tim Parker, captain and
groundsman at Woolpit Cricket Club, said he was disgusted by the attack in the early hours of Saturday 14th April.
vandals who he believes are deliberately targeting the ground. The arson, which destroyed the club's two storage sheds and a range of valuable equipment used to maintain the pitch, followed a spate of petty crime. Tim said: “Every day now, because of this targeted vandalism, we are fearing the worst when we go to the ground. We have our hearts in our mouths over the new pavilion - we just don't know what we’re going to find.” “All decent people in the village are appalled by these
He blamed mindless
mindless few who are ruining it for everyone else.” He said the club was one of the biggest village cricket grounds in Suffolk with 250 children on its junior books and four adult sides in various leagues. But he vowed to the
arsonists: “In reality their mindless behaviour is not going to stop Woolpit Cricket Club from going forward and being successful.” “I have been captain and
Club captain and groundsman Tim Parker is pictured with the remains of the portable store at Woolpit Cricket Club after it was set alight by vandals
groundsman at Woolpit for 20 years and it’s been my life’s work to produce the ground as it is and this is a bitter blow for me and everyone who has put in so much effort.” But the first matches of the season went ahead as usual in defiance at the latest incident. It took fire crews from more than an hour to bring under control, and followed incidents in which vandals had used bolt croppers to get into the locked site. In one
incident a car was driven at speed around the ground. Mowers, scarifiers, hand
tools and bags of fertiliser were among items wrecked in the blaze but, fortunately, much of the cricket gear
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stored in the adjoining shed, which was also destroyed, had been moved ahead of the season. Suffolk police confirmed the incident was being treated as arson.
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