A MUM is heart broken after her daughter’s grave was vandalised in what she fears is a racist and homophobic incident.

Sally Grant, from Luton, was shocked to discover the flowers left to remember her daughter Serena were trampled and dumped by bins close to her grave at the Kingsdown Crematorium.

Serena took her own life aged 31 in February, three months to the day she married Vicky Smith, from Swindon, who had been undergoing cancer treatment when she died in December.

They were buried in the same plot, following Serena’s last wish.

On April 13, 10 days after the funeral the plastic and flower wreaths left behind by Sally and her family, using the rainbow colours associated with gay pride, were found strewn across the ground.

Sally told the Advertiser her daughter, who was mixed race, had suffered abuse from people in the town.

She said: “I was absolutely mortified. It’s homophobic and its racist, they’ve called Serena a monkey. I didn’t realise that kind of thing still existed. Your dad dying is hard, but your first born daughter is something else. I can’t ever forgive the way they have treated her.

“No one can do that to my child, especially when she’s not here to defend her self.

“When someone takes their life, it’s the most difficult thing to go through. I know Serena was heart broken, but she has left another 100 broken hearts behind.”

There are no CCTV cameras in the crematorium’s cemetery, meaning there is no evidence to prove who the culprits were.

Wiltshire Police confirmed it received a complaint and said it carried out enquiries but has exhausted all lines of enquiry.