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Published Date:
18 November 2009
Residents have called for action after a spate of car vandalism costing thousands of pounds.
Incidents include cars being scratched, aerials bent and windscreens smashed in Havelock Street, Lindsay Street, Crown Street, St Peter's Avenue and Tennyson Road, Kettering, in the past few months.

At a meeting last week residents asked the saf
er community team for better protection.

In one case a five-year-old girl came out of her house to find an obscenity scratched on her mother's car.

Kerri Smith, 28, of Havelock Street, had a wing mirror smashed twice in a week and youths damaged the bonnet of her car by rolling over it last month.

Mrs Smith, who has three children, said: "I feel very frustrated. Repairs cost money and it takes a lot to earn it.

"It's just disrespectful. It's money that should be going on my children."

Keli Watts, councillor for the William Knibb ward, was left with a £1,000 bill to have her car resprayed after vandals scratched two of her cars in St Peter's Avenue.

Mrs Watts said 11 cars were damaged in one night in the street and an obscenity was scratched on her neighbour's car.

Mr Watts said: "It's frequent, it's malicious and it's something that everyone is very fed up with."

The police have promised more high visibility patrols in the area in the evenings and at weekends.

Sgt Ash Tuckley of Kettering North Central Safer Community Team also said police would use a robot camera which can climb lamp-posts and act as a mobile CCTV camera.

They may also take a mobile police station to the area.

Residents of the Rockingham Road Pleasure Park area of Kettering have also complained about anti-social behaviour in the park.

Friends of Rockingham Road Pleasure Park secretary Terry Young, who lives in Park Road, said: "We have a problem with youths wrapping the swings round the frame every single night. They create a constant noise.

"We need to make young people aware of others and their surroundings. We would like young people to be involved because it's their park."

The safer community team will meet Kettering Council to discuss the community's priorities on Friday, November 27.



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  • Last Updated: 18 November 2009 11:34 AM
  • Source: Northants Evening Telegraph
  • Location: Kettering
 
 

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