Heartbroken daughter begs for commonsense as she is confronted with car loads of drunks at her mum’s grave

She last saw her mum in the ambulance that took her to hospital.

She went to her mum’s grave at St Colman’s Cemetery in Lurgan, Co Armagh for the first time last night (Thursday April 30).

Her grief was made even worse by the car loads of drunk, young men.

“It’s terrible. I was upset all night,” she said.

“As you know my wee mum was taken with that virus.

“I never got to say goodbye.

“And now these idiots are going to bring it to their mum or granny.”

“I never seen my mum after she was put into the ambulance.

“There was no wake. Just straight from hospital to her grave.

“They need to wise up.”

She begged for the graveyards to stay open for those in grief, but also wanted those to stop congregating at graveyards unnecessarily - ‘for the sake of your own families’.

“You have no idea what it is like not to be able to be there with your mum when she dies,” she said in floods of tears.

“I was absolutely devastated to go into the graveyard for the first time to see her.”

She said: “It’s supposed to be a resting place for her and us to go to.”

St Peter’s and St Paul’s Parish have made it clear that social distancing is paramount in all graveyards at this emergency time.

A PSNI spokesperson said: “Police in Lurgan have been made aware of youths gathering in various areas of the town in recent weeks.

“Patrols have increased in Lurgan as part of the policing response to the ongoing pandemic, in order to engage with people and to explain, encourage and as a last resort enforce the health care regulations, which have been put in place to ensure social distancing.

“Officers would ask anyone with any concerns or information about possible breaches of the regulations to contact them on 101 or via the online reporting form which can be found on the PSNI website.”

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