A grieving widow has been left heartbroken after catching a stranger urinating on her late husband’s memorial.
Deborah Walker got a notification from her Ring Doorbell while she was on her way home.
And when the 55-year-old checked the app, she discovered the man relieving himself outside her home.
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Deborah’s husband Leslie died in March last year, aged 58.
Family and friends, including Leslie’s five grandchildren, had left flowers, cards, poems and ornaments outside of Deborah’s home in his memory.
“I was absolutely livid,” Deborah, from Streatham, south London, told Need to Know.
“The memorial means so much to us as a family because it started by way of people wanting to show their love for Leslie and support for us.
“It’s there as soon as you come down the stairs; you can’t miss it. It’s so obvious that it’s a memorial, and he did it anyway.
“Did he just not care?
“Any decent human being would have seen the memorial and thought ‘I can’t do that here’.
“I want someone to pull him up on what he’s done and tell him that it’s out of order.
“I want his family and friends to see it and ask him if he thinks it’s okay and if he’d like it if someone did it to him.
“He needs to think about what he’s doing.
“He didn’t know the circumstances of when and how Leslie died.
“He doesn’t know what people in the house are going through.
“I feel violated.”
In the doorbell footage on Sunday (6 Apr), the man can be seen walking down a flight of stairs leading to Deborah’s front door.
He urinated underneath the window where the memorial is before leaving.
Deborah said: “It’s been so hard for us as a family.
“When Leslie passed away, friends, family and neighbours automatically started laying flowers outside the door.
“I left it there because it was hard to take it down.
“He could see someone had passed away.
“He needs to know that it’s disrespectful.
“I would never expect my children or grandchildren to behave like that because they’ve been raised with manners.
“There’s a pub across the road, he could have gone to, so there was no need for him to do it on private property.
“What if I were in and I’d gone out and confronted him? It could have escalated. It’s probably lucky I wasn’t in.”
Deborah and Leslie had been together since they were 15.
She says the family uses the shrine as a way to feel closer to Leslie.
She added: “It’s not just about Leslie, it’s about remembering. People still come by to see it.
“It makes us feel closer to Leslie.”
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