A GRANDMOTHER was left in tears after visiting Dunfermline Cemetery and finding the marble stone inscribed with her infant grandson's name had been vandalised.

Jane Forrester, 50, of Blairhall, and her partner, Bob Petrie, had gone to lay flowers in the baby memorial garden last Thursday for Roman Sinclair, who died when he was just four-days-old, when they saw someone had scrawled all over it.

She said: "Whenever we go shopping at Aldi, we buy flowers to take to the cemetery as our grandson's name is on the stone and his ashes were scattered there.

"We always buy a few bunches and try to put flowers in as many pots as possible as there are lots of children's names there.

"As I approached, I thought it didn't look right and when we got closer it looked like someone had scribbled all over it with a marker pen.

"We were both really upset."

The garden is dedicated to the memory of babies who have passed away and marble stones, bearing the names of the infants, are headed 'For All Our Babies, Briefly Known, Forever Loved'.

Jane continued: "Roman was born at 24 weeks so he was very premature and he only lived for four days. It was so sad.

"We paid money to get his name on it through SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity) because he was cremated and we had nowhere to go.

"A year after he was born we scattered his ashes in front of the stone.

"His sister, Brooke, who is seven, asks, 'Can I get flowers for my little brother?'

"It's hard enough to go there anyway but to go and see the memorial to all those babies vandalised, it was very upsetting."

She added: "I don't know who on earth would do something like that.

"You couldn't really make out what it said, Bob thought it was like a kid leaving a tag, leaving their name."

The couple had returned to their car to see if they had anything they could clean it off with, before going back to Aldi to buy anti-bacterial wipes.

Jane explained: "We didn't want anyone else coming up with flowers for a wee one and seeing that but we couldn't get it off.

"I was worried about using bleach or anything like that as it's marble, so came home and reported it to the council.

"I just couldn't settle. I told my step-daughter Simone, Roman's mum, about it and we both put something on Facebook.

"I think they should have a camera put in there to catch anyone who does this. It's just not on."

She continued: "We were going to go back the next day to clean it but before we knew it, two women had gone and cleaned it all off with toothpaste!

"It was so kind of them but they shouldn't have needed to do it in the first place."