The family of a biker who died in a crash are devastated that flowers left as a memorial were taken from the spot where he died.
Andrew Wordley, 36, of Oldfield Road, Westbury, died in March 2005 when his Kawasaki motorbike collided with the bucket of a tractor at the Wellhead Drove junction on the A350 at Westbury.
His fiancée Jaime Smith, 29, of Oldfield Road, said the family had left flowers and a plant pot secured to the ground at the scene.
They were outraged to discover someone had gone to great efforts to steal the flowers left as a tribute to mark the fourth anniversary of his death.
Miss Smith said: “It’s disgusting. There was a wooden pot with spring flowers that had a metal rod in it to hold it in the ground. Whoever took it left the metal rod by the side.
“I haven’t got a clue why someone would take them – I really don’t know.
“The flowers had been up there for a while so they weren’t even fresh.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
Mr Wordley grew up in Westbury and was a DJ at the Ludlow Arms before he joined the army aged 25.
He had been a member of Westbury cadets and is described as being “the life of the party who could cheer up anybody”.’ “We are all absolutely devastated and gutted that someone could do something like this,” Ms Smith said.
“We are not expecting anything back, to be honest, but this is to make them feel guilty and realise what effect it has had on us. There are no words to describe it.”
Mr Wordley’s sister Angie Sheppard, of Bradley Road, Trowbridge, has been back to the scene with their mother Darleene, 64, of Oakfield Road, Westbury, to replace the tributes, which they noticed had been stolen on the weekend of March 14/15.
Mrs Sheppard said: “It’s awful and so upsetting, especially for my mum. I just don’t understand how anybody could be so nasty.
“We have planted some flowers in the ground up there because mum didn’t like the idea of nothing being there.”
Three fire appliances, two ambulances and Wiltshire Air Ambulance were called to deal with the crash on March 12, 2005.
Mr Wordley was pronounced dead at the scene, while the tractor driver was treated for shock.
Mr Wordley’s passenger, Graham Huxter, of Westbury, was hurt in the crash and was airlifted to the Royal United Hospital in Bath with leg injuries.
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