THE parents of three youngsters who rampaged through a Jewish cemetery causing £37,000 damage have been ordered to pay compensation for their children's crimes.

More than 40 headstones were knocked over and smashed as the vandals stormed through Rainsough Hebrew burial ground in Butterstile Lane, Prestwich last June.

The parents of the schoolchildren were told to pay £750 to the cemetery when they appeared before Bury magistrates charged with causing criminal damage.

Mr Sonny Fromson, president of the Manchester Jewish Representative Council, said: "The damage was huge and so we are very pleased to see that justice has been done.

"We were delighted that the police were so quick in catching the youngsters and hope that it will serve as a lesson to others who may think they are too young to be punished."

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