Police shut down Facebook page after angry drivers post hate comments about 'Terminator' traffic warden



The Terminator: John Woodgate's zero tolerance to traffic offences is disliked by many drivers

He arrived with the determination to 'clean up this town' and earned a tough reputation for his pursuit of parking offenders.



But the heavy-handed manner of traffic warden John Woodgate has not gone down well with the residents of Sudbury in Suffolk.



So much so that they set up a website as a forum to vent their fury about the man nicknamed 'The Terminator'.



Soon, nearly 1,000 motorists had signed up to the page on Facebook, making comments such as 'you jobsworth ****',

'get cancer' and 'the man is just a bully in a uniform'.



But Suffolk police have demanded it be shut down because it contained 'hateful, threatening or obscene material'.



Mr Woodgate, 60, recently became a police community support officer, but the tickets have kept coming.



And yesterday locals still had plenty to say.



John McMillan, president of the town's Chamber of Commerce, said: 'The problem is that he is so bloody rude and offensive and is just not prepared to be flexible.'



Dock Roper, 63, said: 'The man is a real menace. He needs to be removed from office - he shows no humanity and I am not surprised that so many people don't like him.'



Facebook said: 'Our policy is to remove groups that attack an individual or group.'



Facebook agreed to remove the page on the grounds that it contained hateful and threatening criticism of Mr Woodgate (file picture)



