JEREMY Clarkson's wife has called vandals who caused damage around the family's holiday home in Langness "mindless bloody idiots".

Yesterday it was revealed that fence posts and a gate which line a cliff edge near to the property had been removed and thrown onto the rocks below.

A gate had also been removed from a small bridge which leads out to the old lighthouse foghorn and a gate post removed from the lighthouse vicinity.

The damage has made the area particularly unsafe for people walking or exercising their animals.

Francie Clarkson told the Daily Mail website (Mail Online) that the vandalism was reported to her last week. 

She said: "We have around 40 acres of coastland which we bought without rights of way on it. We allow people to walk around it.

"Where we blocked it off was so they could not walk right by our house - and that's where they have pulled down the fence.

"Another part of what they have damaged is what stops you falling into the sea. They are mindless bloody idiots

"Someone has decided to take the law into their own hands while we are still appealing against the inquiry."

The row over the rights of way on the Langness peninsula is still on-going after the Clarkson's diverted a path away from their home after they said their privacy was being compromised.

Local ramblers set up the action group PROWL (Public Rights of Way Langness) who are fighting to reverse this action.

Sergeant Rosie Hawes from the Southern Neighbourhood Policing Team said: "As I am sure people are aware this area of land and access to it is currently being dealt with by the High Court and no final decisions in relation to access rights have currently been made. From a policing point I would say that no person has the right to damage any property not belonging to them."

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