Families whose loved ones are buried in a Belfast cemetery say they are devastated by the removal of flowers and other personal mementos from the graves.
On Saturday morning, relatives arrived at St Joseph s Cemetery, Hannahstown, to find that tributes including photos and memorial plaques had been put in skips or set to one side.
Relatives claim they only became aware of what had happened when somebody posted a video on Facebook.
SDLP representative for west Belfast Paul Doherty said he was contacted on both Saturday and Sunday by many distressed families and that relatives deserve an apology.
Louise Watson, from Suffolk Road, whose sister Sinead (45), a mother-of-two, was buried in the cremation plot just two weeks ago, managed to retrieve most of her mementos and has vowed to keep putting them on the grave.