A café owner claims a group of mums trashed the toilets at a Southport beauty spot before stealing a toilet roll holder.
Gail Settle, who owns the café in the Botanic Gardens, claims a group of women vandalised the toilets on their way to pick their children up from school.
Ms Settle claims the incident was captured on CCTV.
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The 62-year-old told the ECHO: "Three mothers were going to pick their kids up from school and they cut through the park.
"On their way they decided to go to the toilet but one of them must have come equipped with a screwdriver to get the toilet roll holder off the wall.
"They threw stuff all over the toilet, they threw the blue tissues everywhere. One of them took the toilet roll holder, hid it under her coat, came out and went to get her kids from school and came back with it still under her coat.
"She then went into the café, sat down, had a drink and went with it still under the coat and took it home."
The toilets aren't maintained by Sefton Council but by volunteers who spend hours keeping the toilets clean each week.
Gail said the volunteers were "heartbroken" by the vandalism.
She said: "The toilets are run by volunteers. It's not run by the council and it's disheartening for them to come in to this, especially since it's adults that have done that.
"[The volunteers] are heartbroken. They're fed up with it. For adults they should know better."
Merseyside Police was approached for comment.
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