POLICE are hunting yobs spotted on camera daubing pro-Ulster Volunteer Force graffiti on a Catholic school.

Trinity High, in Renfrew, was targeted in an attack at the weekend.

Police are treating the spray-painted slogans as a sectarian crime.

The attack happened at about 9.45pm on Sunday - and the incident was captured on CCTV cameras.

Staff called police after discovering "UVF" scrawled on the wall.

A Police Scotland spokes-woman said: "Officers received a call reporting an incident of graffiti at a school in Renfrew.

"Inquiries are being made locally."

Witnesses - or anyone with information - have been urged to come forward and contact police.

The Evening Times previously reported how religious hate crime has continued to fall over the past three years.

The number of charges in Glasgow with a religious aggravation dropped from 281, in 2012/13, to 208 in 2013/14, a drop of almost 26%.

Glasgow had accounted for more than half of all such offences in Scotland in 2010/11, but this dropped to just over a third during the last year.

However, Scotland-wide figures for hate crime showed an increase for offences relating to race, disability and sexual orientation, and Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland said these figures were a cause for concern.

Anyone with information about the Renfrew vandalism is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101.

rebecca.gray@eveningtimes.co.uk