Fury as travellers break into youth football pitch and set up caravans

A youth football club was broken into by travellers using an angle grinder, who then set up 20 caravans on the site illegally.

CCTV footage showed a convoy of cars towing caravans arrive at Thetford Town Youth FC in Norfolk last Friday at around 3pm.

The group of travellers used an angle grinder to break locks and force entry to the club site, damaging the main gate and driving 'back and forth over the pitches used for matches'.

Some men even attempted to angle grind the locks off goals, before the group eventually left two days later on Sunday, July 5 at around 7.30pm.

But they left behind a pitch strewn with dirty nappies, cans, and a car seat in the aftermath, forcing the football club to spend a day cleaning the site.