Former police worker Celine Lockyer is quitting the UK after yobs repeatedly target her home in a bizarre case of ‘mistaken identity’, leaving even her dog ‘scared to go out in the garden’
Celine Lockyer is heading back to Australia from Worcester after a mysterious campaign of terror by teenage yobs targeting her ‘by mistake’. A recent bombardment by eggs and tomatoes proved the final straw.
The worst attack came on Halloween when her home in Sandpiper Close was hit with eggs and tomatoes. The following day, yobs then hurled around a dozen eggs.
Celine, 60, heard “bashing” on the windows before discovering egg yolk smeared across the glass and walls. The former West Mercia Police staff member said apples were thrown at her home over the summer and she’s now preparing to return to Australia at the end of the month.
“It’s been horrendous,” she said. “I can’t enjoy it. It’s a nightmare here. I’m suffering from anxiety and stress and I’m on medication. It’s constant. In the summer it was apples. Thank God I wasn’t outside in the garden at the time. I feel like I’m under siege and being driven from my home.
“My dog is scared to go out in the garden. It’s stressing me out and making me very unhappy. I don’t feel safe in my own home. I feel terrorised.”
Celine said the trouble began in October last year but escalated in the summer. She even visited her local Tesco store to try to obtain CCTV footage of the teenage hooligans buying the eggs in an effort to identify them.
She said she had tried to jetwash the mess from the walls but worried the property would need repainting – and that the attacks would continue.
Celine, originally from Malvern, moved to Australia two decades ago but returned to Britain in 2017 to look after her mother, who suffered from Parkinson’s and dementia and has since died.
During the summer she fitted CCTV which recorded youths hurling apples at her property and garden. In a separate incident she was shocked to discover a traffic cone had been thrown over her fence.
Celine said she had compiled a 13-page dossier documenting the harassment she has endured. She said she suspected she was being targeted by a group who had confused her with somebody else.
“There is an alleyway behind the fence and that’s where all the eggs and apples are thrown from,” she said. “I can only think that whoever is responsible believes someone else lives here. I have no other explanation for what is happening. I am at the end of my tether.”
Following the most recent attacks, Celine booked her ticket to return Down Under. “I’ve had enough,” she said. “The last year has been hell and I want to put it all behind me. I’m worried that it will escalate and it is really affecting my health.”
Her landlady Jill Mounce, who owns the £200,000 property, criticised the police response and said she was “appalled”. “This is causing me sleepless nights and great anxiety, for which I am having to resort to prescribed medication,” she said.
“When I saw the CCTV of the apples being thrown at the house I was appalled. If someone had been sitting in the garden it could have killed them.”
A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said: “On November 2 we received a report of criminal damage to a property on Sandpiper Close in Worcester. The investigation is ongoing.”
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