AN ANGRY pensioner has warned vandals who smashed windows at his St Martin’s property over the weekend that they would need an ambulance if he caught them. Fred and Barbara Le Cheminant’s home at La Petite Houguette, La Vallee Road, was targeted at about 9.30pm on Friday.

‘I would love them to come up and face me. It’s absolutely mindless and they have no thought for anybody else. It’s sickening,’ said Mr Le Cheminant.

The outer panes of two double-glazed windows were left badly cracked.

Mrs Le Cheminant was left feeling nervous and the couple’s family are fuming.

‘It looks like it could be a gunshot or catapult,’ said Mr Le Cheminant.

A projectile about the size of a penny was found inside one of the windows.

‘It looked like a pellet shot, but bigger. It could have been a catapult shot,’ he said. ‘They do this under the cover of darkness. They can’t face people,’ he said.

‘They make these excuses there is nowhere to go, but there is so much to do in this day and age. We made our own amusements ‘when I was young’ by going to the boxing or youth club.’

The couple had their TV on loudly on Friday when his wife heard a noise.

‘My wife thought I had dropped my walking stick. When she got up the following morning, she said the front window was broken. I had a look half an hour later and noticed that a side window was done as well,’ he said.

‘We are not the only ones ‘targeted’,’ he added.

A window was smashed at another property in the same road and it was not the first time the area had been targeted. Eggs have been splattered over properties and graffiti daubed on sheds and walls. One neighbour’s shed was set alight.

Mr Le Cheminant urged the ‘gutless’ friends of the culprits to report them and called for more proactive rather than perceived reactive police action in the St Martin’s area.

‘We have heard police will stand off until these people do something. That is not crime prevention,’ he said.

Police are urging anyone with any information about the vandalism to contact them on 725111 or via the confidential Crimestoppers line on 00800 555 111.

They also want information about vandalism at a dwelling in School Lane, St Martin’s, between 5pm on Friday and 10am the following day.