Children joyriding in dumper trucks at college construction site

Dumper trucks. Police appeal for information after damage to buildings.STV

Children joyriding on dumper trucks have damaged college buildings at a construction site.

Youths as young as 13 and 14 were seen playing at the construction site of new college buildings at Inshes in Inverness on Sunday.

Witnesses phoned the police when they saw the children playing on dumper trucks on the site, at around 5.40pm.

They started the dumper trucks and drove them around the site, damaging various buildings.

The children were then seen running away, in the direction of Smithton.

Three of them were wearing black hooded tops and a fourth was in a white hooded top.

Anyone with information is urged to call Northern Constabulary on 01463 715555 or phone Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.