Aberystwyth: 'Go back to Brummyland' note a hate crime - police

This note with insults about people from Birmingham was stuck to a house

A note with slurs about Birmingham people that was stuck to a house in mid Wales is being treated as a hate crime.

Dyfed-Powys Police said it was put up on a property in Iorwerth Avenue, Aberystwyth, on Monday night.

It claims what it called "low-life" from the Midlands had ruined the area, urging them to go back to "Brummyland".

It called the West Midlands accent "vomit-inducing" and urged the occupant to "take a few thousand" other people back with them.

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The note read: "Iorwerth Ave was once a nice, quiet, pleasant residential area until a load of [people] from the Midlands hit.

"Low-life like you should be forced to live in fenced in sites, preferably back where you came from."

The note was posted on a house in Iorwerth Avenue, Aberystwyth

The note continued: "Why don't you take your clapped out crappy boats, jeeps, cars and your hideous vomit-inducing accents back to Brummyland."

A Dyfed-Powys Police spokesperson said: "An offensive note was left outside a property that has caused distress to the occupants.

"The note was left just after 19:00 GMT on the evening of 8 January. Officers would like to speak with the individual who left the note."

Police appealed for anyone with information relating to the note to contact the force.