St Margaret's church in Leicester, England ransacked by vandals

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Police in Leicester, England report that vandals broke into and desecrated a 13th century church in the city's center, overturning lecterns, breaking windows and defecating through a floor panel into the church's medieval foundation.

Canon Barry Naylor said the incident has appalled him. "I was absolutely horrified and felt speechless by it. It was absolutely disgusting and an act of sacrilege and desecration to a house of worship."