A GRANDMOTHER was in tears after discovering flowers and other tributes had been removed from the place where her grandson died in a motorcycle accident.

Jill Luck, who lives in Dereham, Norfolk, made a special half-term trip south to visit her daughter Tracy Wilson in Hampreston and to visit the spot near Brook in the New Forest where Regan James Wilson crashed into a tree and died on Sunday, March 30.

But when they got there they found flowers, a teddy bear left perched in the boughs of the tree by Regan's sisters Kasha, 16, and Tiffany, 18, two wooden crosses and some cacti left in the 22-year-old graduate's memory had been removed.

"My daughter was angry and I just cried, but that's what I do. We loved him, he was all we had, he was my grandson," said Mrs Luck.

"I think it's a despicable act."

Regan's mother said: "We just turned up there and everything had been taken away, which was quite a shock.

"It's quite a mean thing to do, really. My two daughters were in tears because they had left things there for him, and if we had been asked we would have taken them away. It's sad to think they have been put in a bin."

A NFDC customer services spokesman said policy was to leave flowers commemorating a road death where they were.

"Once they have died off they might be cleared, but only if requested," she said.

But a Forestry Commission spokesman said: "It is our policy to remove flowers and memorabilia after a couple of days.

They can pose a danger to ponies, deer and other wildlife in general.

"I would think that is what happened. In hindsight it would have been better if they had phoned and asked us before."