From today's Telegraph:

'A man was killed in an affluent village yesterday after confronting yobs who police were said to have repeatedly failed to tackle. John Dabell, 25, was walking home from a pub when he was attacked and beaten over the head with a plank on a patch of waste ground notorious for drug dealing...Villagers in Linby, which has only 80 houses, said last night they had repeatedly asked police to stop yobs congregating on the waste ground. They said they sold drugs and even let off fireworks...Bob Brothwell, the chairman of the parish council, said: "It is a very quiet village, really quite affluent. But on that particular piece of land you do get gangs of youths meeting up to deal drugs. It has been a worry for around two or three years. There has been little police action to disperse them. We have found hypodermic needles in the bushes there in the past. We complained to the police a number of times, but little has been done".'

Posted by melanie at April 12, 2005