{"id":121111,"date":"2023-11-13T11:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121111"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:49:18","slug":"uk-seaside-town-plagued-by-gangs-of-kids-like-pack-of-animals-baying-for-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/uk-seaside-town-plagued-by-gangs-of-kids-like-pack-of-animals-baying-for-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"UK seaside town plagued by gangs of kids like pack of animals baying for blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have admitted that children as young as 12 are terrorising a popular UK seaside town whose residents say the gangs are like "packs of animals, baying for blood".<\/p>\n

The Telegraph recently voted Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset somewhat of a super nightmare, dubbing it the UK's third worst seaside town. And despite its ability to pull in hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, the town is in the midst of escalating violence and disorder, according to locals. <\/p>\n

The Sun spoke to a series of locals in the town who say the problems are worsening, with gangs featuring children as young as 10 running rampant in the centre. And one man, who opted to remain anonymous, told the publication that he was defending a young woman who was being targeted by a gang of 15 youths when he was attacked.<\/p>\n

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The middle-aged local said: \u201cIt was about 4.30pm and the woman was wasted, very drunk, and, they were having a go at her and threatening, so I stepped in.<\/p>\n

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"They all circled me, like a pack of animals baying for blood. Then they beat me up pretty badly, and I could see one girl stood back, filming it on her phone."<\/p>\n

He said the attack spilled over onto the town's famous beach where he had his face stamped on and where he was rendered unconscious when a vicious youth stood on his throat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in hospital for two days and still have the scars including a black eye, as well as the emotional trauma," he said, adding that children shoot fireworks through shop doors and letterboxes for sport.<\/p>\n

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Another local, called Elaine, 49, told the paper that "everyone is worried" about the gangs of yobs.<\/p>\n

She said: "You don\u2019t know whether they\u2019re going to come towards you and what they might have on them, and they\u2019re everywhere."<\/p>\n

Former RAF and retired aerospace engineer Frank Bamford, 70, has lived in Weston for 53 years and even he admitted that the gangs are "intimidating".<\/p>\n

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