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Mrs Kirkham at Dunham Lawn Cemetery

A MOTHER has blasted the callous thieves who stole her daughter's memorial bench from a Dunham cemetery.

Hannah Kirkham tragically died in December 2003 aged 18, and her family and friends bought a bench in her memory which was placed close to her grave in Dunham Lawn Cemetry.

An inquest in 2005 heard Hannah had committed suicide after been consistently bullied by work colleagues at the KFC takeaway in Northenden.

Her mother Marie Kirkham, who lives in Timperley, goes to the cemetery every Sunday to lay flowers on the grave and sit on her daughter's bench, but six weeks ago when she got there the bench was nowhere to be seen.

"On that day it wasn't there, my heart skipped a beat and I went into panic mode - the bench had gone. My husband and the staff at the cemetery searched for the bench but is has been stolen.

"It is a despicable act to take something from a cemetery - the lowest of the lows, I am hoping to prick someone's conscience and maybe the culprits will do something about it."

Mark Brazil, the council's parks, greenspace and bereavement services manager said: "This is a terrible act and we are deeply disappointed that a memorial to a loved one can be removed.

"The council is working with the family to replace the bench in the location most appropriate within the cemetery."

Marie has even said she will offer a small reward to anyone with information on the bench and she be contacted by email to captkirk21@yahoo.com.

Anyone with further information about who may have taken the memorial should contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or the police on 0161 872 5050.

8:56am Thursday 27th March 2008

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