No respect for dead

CURRA pensioners Joy and Alf Brooks won't let the heartless vandals that defaced their son's memorial destroy their lives.

CURRA pensioners Joy and Alf Brooks won’t let the heartless vandals that defaced their son’s memorial destroy their lives.

The couple was in tears Thursday as they showed the damage done by vandals to their son Damon Brooks’ Southside Memorial.

It is the second time in the past six months vandals have attacked the site smashing the porcelain image of the Brooks’ dead son, who suicided in 2004 aged 39.

Joy said her son was a good man and didn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

“He struggled but he helped people all his life,” he said.

“He did many good things.”

She said the stress of the vandalism was taking its toll on her and her husband.

“If they keep going they may cause another suicide,” Joy said.

She is hoping whoever is responsible will now leave the memorial alone.

“I am not going to let the mongrels beat me,” Joy said.

“They really knocked the wind out of me but I have to keep going.

“They have no respect.

“They need to leave it alone and let things be.”

Mrs Brooks is urging anyone with any information about the vandalism to call the Gympie Police.

“They might think they are having fun but they are hurting others,” she said.

The 66-year-old said she would like to see whoever was responsible for the vandalism, pluck up the courage and admit to what they had done and apologise.

“If they came forward to apologise I wouldn’t eat them,” Joy said.

“I would cuddle them and ask them why they did it.”

Originally published as No respect for dead