Vile: The stickers at a park in Cambridge tell immigrants to ‘bring your families home’

Vile stickers telling refugees they are 'not welcome' and should 'go home to Africa' have been spotted around a park.

The stickers at Romsey Recreation Ground in Cambridge tell immigrants to ‘bring your families home’ – and it is feared they could inspire hate crimes.

Other signs at the park, which has a children’s playground, said ‘not welcome’ in a parody of the Refugees Welcome stickers that are popular in the US.

A 71-year-old man who lives next to the park said: ‘Everyone has got a right to an opinion. A lot of people feel threatened and they are expressing it this way.

‘It’s not the way I would do it. I can understand it especially among the older people who feel threatened.

‘But everybody who moves to this area knows there are a lot of foreigners here so they have a choice of whether or not they want to live here.’

George Williams was visiting the park and feared the stickers could fuel hate crimes.

Edited: The 'not' was taken off the phrase 'not welcome' in this sticker at Romsey Recreation Ground, which is a parody of the Refugees Welcome stickers that are popular in the US

The 29-year-old said: ‘I believe we should help refugees as much as possible but I also think there does need to be the support in place when they do come here.

‘I really don’t think putting up these stickers is a very nice thing to do. It is only going to fuel even more hatred and is meant to be incendiary.’

Stefan Haselswimmer, founder of the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign, which was set up to offer local homes to refugees, dismissed the stickers.

He said: ‘(It) is like Twitter in that those that are the noisiest make the most noise. But it is not representative at all of people in Cambridge who are keen to help refugees.’

Concern: One man who was visiting the park said he feared the stickers could fuel hate crimes

Cambridge has so far resettled 14 Syrian refugees under the Government’s Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme.

A Cambridgeshire police spokesman said: ‘The matter has been reported to us.

'We want to make it clear that stickers of this nature are not welcome in Cambridge, or in fact any part of our county.