St Neots: Two arrested after pigeons found with swastikas carved on breasts

Swastikas were carved into the breasts of pigeons found dead in St Neots

Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of two pigeons that had swastikas carved into their breasts.

Cambridgeshire Police were called on 22 August to reports of dead birds that had been found mutilated in the High Street, St Neots.

A woman and a man, both in their 20s, have been arrested on suspicion of a racial/religious public order offence.

They remained in custody, police said.

A arrested woman was 21 years old and from Baldock, Hertfordshire, while the man was aged 23 and from Chatteris in Cambridgeshire.

A dead, mutilated pigeon was photographed by the BBC on the ground next to wheelie bins in an alleyway off Brook Street, near the High Street