BURGLARS left a trail of destruction in their wake after getting into a school sports hall.

Extensive damage was done to the sports hall and its facilities at Bay House School in Gosport and numerous items of equipment and kit were taken or left unusable.

The yobs ripped a towel holder from the wall and broke a heater in the girls’ toilets.

They also ripped two sinks off the wall in the men’s toilet, smashed urinals, blocked one toilet by breaking the seat over it and damaged soap dispensers.

Further damage was done in the main hall where they smashed the electric scoreboard, bent in half volleyball posts, badminton posts and goalposts, as well as badminton rackets much of which cannot be repaired.

Outside they set fire to a bin on the Astroturf.

Football kits, two bags of footballs, two bags of general football kit, 12 volleyballs, 24 sports bibs, dodge balls, four medical kits, cricket balls, tennis balls and shuttlecocks were taken.

Anyone with information should contact PC Shona Rust at Gosport police on 101.