The couple spent more than an hour one night scrubbing at the graffiti. Staff said the clean-up had restored their faith in young people.
A local police sergeant made similar "hope for the future" noises. But he still encouraged the pair to contact the police, "so we can get to the bottom of who was responsible for this incident".
Plod needs an arrest, otherwise the paperwork looks bad.
Libby Purvis says that years ago, she "mumsily confiscated a crisp packet of glue" from a 10-year-old. "I told him it was bad for him, asked if he was OK and offered to buy him a cold drink; he moved on, sulkily," she wrote in The Times.
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