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Thugs torment Kettering blind woman with threats and taunts
Yobs have terrorised and tormented a partially-deaf and sighted woman for two years, driving her to plead: "Please leave me alone."
Lizzie Anderson, 28, has suffered verbal and physical abuse walking from her home to nearby shops.
The thugs have even spun her around to try to disorientate her.
The problem is now so bad Lizzie and her father Peter have called in the police and Kettering MP Philip Hollobone for help.
Lizzie, from Kettering, has had more than 30 operations on her brain and 21 shunts to relieve fluid.
As well as her hearing and sight problems she suffers from epilepsy and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Despite her problems Miss Anderson, 28, enjoys walking to the nearby Tesco Express store in Brambleside and to a nearby pub. She refuses to use a white cane fearing she would become even more of a target.
She said: "It all started about two years ago, when people were trying to make me buy cigarettes for them and the name calling went from there.
"I've had people say 'what scary film are you from' and call me all sort of names that I can't bear to repeat."
Her father, Peter Anderson, said police visited the family on Saturday to take details after another incident on Friday.
However, Lizzie said she was determined to carry on walking to the shops and enjoying her freedom.
She said: "I'm not going to stop going out because of this.
"I suffer from night blindness, I know where I am during the day and don't want to use a white cane – if they saw it that would be like a bull seeing red.
"The people doing this are mindless. If they had children of their own or someone in their family with a disability I'm sure they would understand what they are doing to me."
Miss Anderson said on one occasion she was left disorientated by yobs who spun her around and left her walking in the wrong direction.
Later this month she is to move to Hereford to study at the Royal National College for the Blind.
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