A crime scene has been set up at a cemetery in South Maitland, near Newcastle, following the discovery of the vandalised headstones were on Tuesday.
NSW Police are investigating a suspected hate crime after swastikas were found painted on gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the Hunter Valley.
Police said up to 10 headstones were defaced with Nazi stencils or splashed with paint in what they said was a suspected hate crime. Officers from the Port Stephens command were called to the cemetery at Louth Park near Maitland on Tuesday. Police said all gravestones were being forensically examined and investigators have appealed for information from the public.
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