CLIFF walkers should soon get back a fence that protects them from one of the most dangerous spots on the south coast. The chain link that shields them from the chasm at La Congrelle was flattened last weekend when stolen vehicles were pushed through it.

It is to be repaired and, as usual, the taxpayer will pick up the tab for the vandals’ sick pleasure.

Environment’s senior land management officer Martin Gavet said the perpetrators had clearly had to make a significant effort to carry out their crime.

‘The vehicles had been driven over private fields to get to the chain-link fence, which was severely damaged,’ he said.

‘The fence will be repaired for obvious safety reasons, as with all vandalism of this nature, at taxpayers’ expense.’

Vice-dean of Torteval douzaine Lloyd Brehaut he did not see a need for walls or stronger fencing in the area.

‘If they don’t go there, I think they will just find somewhere else,’ he said.

‘There are large boulders around certain parts of Pleinmont and when people want to move them, they do it.’

The Environment Department has said it is unlikely that the two vehicles – a Ford Focus and Honda Acty pickup – will be recovered because the dangers of retrieval are too great given the depth of the gully in which they lie.