Pankhurst Avenue in Brighton is being terrorised by 30 to 40 teenagers every night, usually until three in the morning, two if we are very lucky.

My kids get woken every night by yobs swearing, shouting and smashing bottles, leaving broken glass and scratches on cars.

Trees, which were re-planted by Brighton and Hove City Council, are broken and used as battering rams on cars and gardens.

Rubbish is brought into the road and set alight. Even cars have been burnt.

The last time someone tried to move them on they were viciously beaten.

No one can sleep. Every time there is a bang, people look out of their windows to check their cars are all right.

The police don't care. One night they turned up and asked the youths to leave but they laughed and refused to move. What did the police do? They got back in their car and left them there.

We hear about what a good job the police are doing to tackle antisocial behaviour but all they do is move the yobs somewhere else.

When I was young, I might have been a bit cheeky but I knew where to draw the line. I certainly wasn't allowed out past ten until I left school.

These scum of society are making their own rules and the police are letting them.

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