St. Thomas' Cathedral Windows SMASHED!!!

Drunken youths smash cathedral’s windows
Rowdy group of 10 also assault several students of nearby school

KUCHING: A rowdy group of up to 10 youths went on drunken rampage and smashed nearly 20 windows of St Thomas’ cathedral at Jalan McDougall yesterday, before heading to a secondary school across the road where they allegedly assaulted several students.

When contacted by The Borneo Post, the dean of the cathedral, Reverand Father Aries Sumping Jingan, said the incident was brought to his attention shortly after 4pm when a member of the public informed him that the cathedral’s guard house had been vandalised by a group of drunken youths.

As he was walking out to investigate, he said he was shocked to see that the youths had also smashed nearly all the windows at the front of the church facing the main road.

Father Aries added that further inspection outside the church revealed that, apart from the guard house, the group of rowdies had also vandalised a vehicle in the church’s parking lot.

Members of the public who witnessed the incident later told the dean that the perpetrators were a group of unkempt-looking youths who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol.

The witnesses also said that after vandalising the cathedral, the group went to a boys’ secondary school across the street where they damaged the school’s guard house and assaulted several students standing nearby before disappearing down the main road.

Sounding extremely disturbed by the whole incident, Father Aries said a police report had been lodged and that he hoped the police would be able to find the persons responsible for the act, adding he was saddened that the youths had chose to target a place of worship in their drunkenness.