'Why would someone do this?' - Family wakes up to find their Christmas decorations ransacked

A family from Fallowfield woke up to find their Christmas lights decorations ‘pulled apart’ and ‘destroyed’.

Sebastian Colans and his wife Tina woke to discover that their decorations around the house trampled on and left a mess. Initially, the pair thought the damage could have been from the weather, however, after close inspection, they found items that could only be forcefully broken by hand.

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The family also saw a figure walk past their door after looking at footage from their doorbell camera however, their decorations were not in view.

Speaking to the MEN, Sebastian said: “I just don’t get why someone would do this? It blows me away that people really look at something and say yeah I’ll destroy that. I am absolutely fuming but me and my wife cleaned up the damages before the kids had woken up but we had to explain the missing decorations.

“We plan on getting some more decorations which is super inconvenient for us. Prices are high during this time and we have spent a lot of our money on presents and the kids so I think it’s just sick to do this.”

Sebastian was first alerted to the mess by his neighbour after seeing the lights over the front garden.

Tina said: “It’s a shame that people do this during Christmas, damaging someone else’s property is something I will never understand. I am just happy they didn’t try to break in. We were meant to do some last minute Christmas shopping but we have had to postpone that due to this. Just please whoever is doing this, just stop.

“We saw a post in the community group of another person who