Police continue investigations into Brummie accent 'hate-crime' note as Welsh businessman speaks out

Welsh police are continuing to investigate a hand-written note urging people from Birmingham to take their 'vomit-inducing' accent 'back to Brummyland'.

The letter was stuck to a house on Iorwerth Avenue, in Aberystwyth, Wales shortly after 7pm on Monday (January 8). Dyfed-Powys Police said it had caused "distress to the occupants" of the property and the force is looking into the note as a hate crime and has launched an appeal to track down those responsible.

On Monday, January 15, the force said there have been no updates on the incident - but that equiries are ongoing. The offensive letter claims "low-life s**ts" from the West Midlands had ruined the ''once pleasant' area and told them to "go back to "Brummyland". The note also called the Birmingham accent "vomit-inducing" and urged the occupants to "take a few thousand" other people back with them.

The director of the Vale Holiday Parks' Clarach Bay site near Aberystwyth told the BBC that he was "very disgusted" by the letter. Thomas Scarrott, whose family are from Leicestershire, said his holiday site welcomes families "from as far as Syria and the Ukraine and people from the Midlands."

He praised people from the region for settling well into the local community and said the Brummie and West Midlands accents are some of the 'most welcoming and friendly accents' you can hear.

He said: "There are a lot of families in this community who have moved from the Black Country, for example, who have fully integrated with the community. They put their children into Welsh-speaking schools when they don't have to."

Dyfed-Powys Police statement

A police spokesperson said on Friday last week (January 12) : "We are investigating a hate incident in Iorweth Avenue, Aberystwyth. An offensive note was left outside a property that has caused distress to the occupants. The note was left just after 7pm on the evening of January 8th. Officers would like to speak with the individual who left the note. If you have any information, CCTV or doorbell camera footage that could help enquiries, please get in touch."

What does the note say in full?

The note, written in red ink, reads in full: "Iorwerth Ave was once a quiet, pleasant, residential area until a load of s*** from the Midlands hit it. Low-life like you should be forced to live in fenced in tinker sites preferably back where you came from.

"Why don't you take your clapped out, crappy boats, jeeps, cars and your hideous, vomit inducing accents back to Brummyland and please take a few thousand other yaw yaws with you."