Travellers leave behind smashed portable buildings and destroyed fences after they are evicted from private land in …

Group with nine caravans wreck vacant plot in Solihull, West Midlands Blocked vital industrial unit access road and HGVs were unable to pass Have since been removed by police and bailiffs but were still there this morning, despite promising officers they'd leave the site yesterday

By Tim Macfarlan For Mailonline

Published: 13:55 EST, 24 February 2015 | Updated: 15:35 EST, 24 February 2015

These are the shocking pictures of the mess left by travellers who occupied a patch of waste ground over just a single weekend.

The trail of destruction includes ruined portable buildings filled with smashed furniture, broken fences, piles of rubbish and a gate thought to have been forced so the group could get access.

The travellers set up camp over the weekend on a privately owned vacant plot of land in Solihull, West Midlands, and have since been removed by police and bailiffs.

Trashed: The inside of a temporary building littered with broken furniture left behind by the travellers

What a mess: Portable buildings at the site in Solihuill, West Midlands, were left in a complete state

Smashed: Rubbish was strewn across the patch of waste ground, which was occupied by nine caravans

The group had promised police to leave the site yesterday but they were still there this morning, before they were moved on this afternoon.

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