Warwick residents shocked by graffiti

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Warwick residents were shocked to discover their ferry station left covered in extensive graffiti.

An unknown intruder left multi-coloured phrases sprayed throughout the interior of the Belmont Wharf ferry stop by Harbour Road.

Warwick Parish Council head Kevin Santucci said he hadn’t seen any sort of graffiti in the building for decades, let alone anything on this scale.

“Let me say that freedom of speech is something no one would dare deny,” the chaplain for the East End’s Department of Corrections said, quoting from one of the phrases spray-painted on the walls.

“But using our governmental buildings, or any private place, as a means of expression is something we have no right to do.”

He was contacted by area residents last week, and attended the scene to photograph it.

Perplexed by the slogans written across the waterside building, Chaplain Santucci said he questioned whether the author had been in their right mind.

“It’s a historic building that’s been in existence for many years in a beautiful, serene spot,” he added.

“I have lived all my years in Warwick, and you definitely do not see this sort of thing happening.”

He said it would prove costly and time-consuming to get rid of multicoloured graffiti sprayed on the pavement leading to the shelter as well as its interior walls.

“My concern, aside from the example it sets to our young people, is that vandalism breeds vandalism. Someone may see this and decide that it’s acceptable to do the same thing.”

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