Do you think this is Ocean Beach? Angry locals slam revellers for holding ‘Ibiza style’ lockdown party at Yorkshire beauty spot and leaving glass bottles and ‘hippy crack’ canisters
- Up to 100 youths left glass bottles and ‘hippy crack’ canisters at Richmond Falls
- People huddled together dancing to music, in flouting of social distancing rules
- Volunteers said that the huge mess took around three hours for them to clear up
Angry locals have slammed revellers for holding an ‘Ibiza-style’ lockdown party at a North Yorkshire beauty spot.
Up to 100 youths left glass bottles and ‘hippy crack’ canisters at Richmond Falls after raving in the sun on Bank Holiday Monday.
Footage showed people huddled together dancing to music, in a blatant flouting of social distancing rules.
Volunteers said the mess took around three hours to clear up after many of them had already done a full day’s work.
Angry locals slammed revellers for holding an ‘Ibiza-style’ lockdown party at North Yorkshire beauty spot Richmond Falls
Up to 100 youths left glass bottles (right) and ‘hippy crack’ canisters (left) at Richmond Falls after raving in the sun on Bank Holiday Monday
Roy King, who was one of the cleaners, tagged local Tory MP and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in a livid social media post.
He tweeted: ‘After being at work over 10 hours yesterday I came home to find the local beauty spot at Richmond Falls had been completely trashed by party goers from out the area.
‘After three hours myself and volunteers got all the rubbish cleared. This needs looking into.’
Volunteers said the mess took around three hours to clear up (pictured) after many of them had already done a full day’s work
Parish Councillor Joseph Lambert added: ‘The state of #Richmond Falls yesterday! Why would you buy chips and not eat them? Those people make me sick.’
Another Twitter user posted: ‘Next person uploading a video of them going to Richmond Falls acting like it’s Ocean Beach is getting unfollowed.’
One man added: ‘Clowns! Every single one of them. People like this need to give their head a wobble, there is people not seeing their families because of the virus!
‘And these people will delay it even more, guarantee at least one person there has Covid-19.’
The stunning waterfall on the River Swale has become a hotspot for coronavirus rule breakers over the past two months.
Last week scores of people expressed their frustration as ‘unacceptable’ and ‘stupid’ revellers gathered there.
North Yorkshire Police said of last week’s incident it had been contacted at 3.30pm to a report of a large group gathering on Riverside Road in Richmond.
A spokesman said: ‘Officers were dispatched to the area and the group dispersed. The force has been approached for further comment.