Travelled to beach gathering

large number of youths have travelled to the area from various areas of South Wales to become involved in serious, violent disorder.

“The local community can also be assured that we will be working with partner agencies and doing everything we can to ensure there is no repeat of this behaviour.”

First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he will stop easing lockdown restrictions if there continue to be incidents like those seen in Ogmore.

Writing on Twitter, Mr Drakeford said: “We will not be able to continue easing restrictions if scenes like last night continue to happen.

“They threaten the health of people in Wales and undermine the sacrifices the majority of people have made during this ongoing crisis.”

On Monday non-essential retail was allowed to reopen with changes to schools and travel planned for the next two weeks. However, Mr Drakeford may not continue at the planned pace if these sort of incidents continue. He said if they saw scenes continue to happen it would “inevitably” have an affect on what we might be able to do in the future.

Mr Drakeford told the daily press briefing: “This is a reminder of what can happen when things go wrong and we have to work to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

He said he was in talks about what could be done locally to make sure it would not happen again and would look at maybe increasing patrols in the area.

Photographs from the scene on Friday morning showed the amount of rubbish that was left behind.

Local residents helped council staff to clear the area of bottles, cans, cannisters and plastic bags that were left strewn around.

At least 33 bags of rubbish were cleared from the beach and surrounding car park.

Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns visited the scene on Friday morning to talk to local residents about their concerns. He said he was here to listen to people’s first-hand experiences of what happened the night before. “I have seen the reports on social media, but I am keen to hear your thoughts,” he told the local residents at the scene.

Locals said they had had numerous issues with speeding motorbikes and people congregating during lockdown. There were also calls for the police to be more “proactive”, rather than “reactive”.

Anyone with information about the incident should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 quoting occurrence number 2000225710.