Disgust as youths caught setting fire to bins in Bury park

A video has caught a moment that a group of youths set fire to a bin in a Bury park. The video shows two teenagers in black hoodies learning over the bin and setting it alight.

On Tuesday evening (3 May), at around 7.30pm, a group entered Town Meadow Park, an urban park covering 1.9 hectares in Tottington. They were hanging around the play area and just after 8.15pm, set fire to two bins around the park.

An eyewitness, Amy, who did not wish to give her surname, had asked the group to leave the park, as they were disrupting her rounders game with her friends. Amy, 32, said: " It was originally two lads that came from the bottom of the park.Theylooked about 14.

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"They came onto the pitch during our rounders game and they were mimicking and pretending to play the game and saying, ‘we are playing a proper game here, get out the way.’ We asked them to leave and they carried on walking.

"There were some young kids- some of our kids- playing with a ball in the basketball area and the tennis area. And the lads started saying to them, ‘pass us your ball, pass us your ball.’

"A few people started saying to the lads, ‘leave the kids alone.’ The lads then started effing and jeffing. I asked them to move on and they began shouting abuse. I didn't swear back at them at all.

"I said, ‘you need to grow up, I think it's past your bedtime now.'Then they hung around the park andthe next thing you know, I saw them using an aerosol and matches to light a bin on fire."

Amy and her friends then rushed over to the bin and were able to put out the fire with water. A few minutes later, they saw the lads had set fire to a second bin behind the bowling green.

She continued: "