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Rogue traders wreck church car park
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Father John Slater and his dog Jess by the car park
With Easter just days away, the plans of a Westgate church have been hampered by a gang of rogue traders.

The congregation of St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church will have to find alternative parking after the entrance to the church car park was fouled up with a sticky, tar-like substance.

The cowboys had attempted to fool the church’s priest, Father John Slater, and his wife into believing that the work had already been approved.

However, the couple refused to accept their story and sent them away.
The group remained undeterred, though, and returned for a second attempt to get some money from the couple the next day.

The group’s leader visited again and claimed that the work had been scheduled to take place, hence his group was starting to lay the substance regardless.

The car park has now been rendered unusable at one of the busiest times of year for the church.

Father John, who has been at St Peter’s for more than 12 years, said: “They came to the door of the presbytery offering to lay tarmac on our car park and my wife told him we didn’t want it doing.

“They came back the next day and I answered the door, but they had insisted she’d said yes.

“He got angry when I said we never said we wanted it done and got very irritable.

“He then said they were going ahead with it anyway and the other chap he was with had already started.

“He even said he was going to make it ‘very unpleasant so that cars would stick to it’. It has left a terrible mess.”

After slopping it around carelessly, the workmen then had the cheek to ask for money for what they had done, but the priest refused.

“The car park is very well used and we have a palm procession on Sunday and on Good Friday the walk of witness.

“I guess we will have to cope as best we can and hope we can get it sorted out in time.”

Sand has been laid on the mess behind, but now the church is faced with the prospect and cost of having to get someone to high-pressure-hose the mess away.
POSTED: 08/04/2009 12:07:55

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