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Townsfolk have condemned 'barbarians' who ripped apart figures in a nativity scene, including beheading Joseph, four days after they were put up outside a parish church.
The Rev Danny Morrison, vicar of All Saints Church in Ipswich, parts of which date back to the 13th century, said the congregation was 'distraught and saddened' at the wanton vandalism.
The incident follows a similar attack in December, 2018, when CCTV footage was issued of a smirking man decapitating Joseph in a savage night-time attack on the nativity display.
People were outraged as news began spreading of the latest attack which saw this year's nativity scene utterly ruined.
Townsfolk blast the ‘barbarians’ who ripped apart their church nativity scene just days after they were installed outside All Saints Church
The act of vandalism included damage to the wooden structure holding up the scene, along with the mannequins being dismembered.
The festive arrangement was destroyed just four days after it went up in Chevallier Street and has left the priest baffled. Reverend Danny Morrison said 'I was distraught, I was saddened, I was bewildered.
'Why would someone have so much hatred and desire to ruin and destroy
