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36 Months of Hell 180 Crime Incidents Against One Woman



The following is released under the instruction of Mercedes de Dunewic. For further information, contact Mercedes de Dunewic on 01740 650401, 31 High Street, Market Square, West Cornforth, Co. Durham, DL17 9HN.



"I moved to the North East 36 months ago and in that time have been subjected to more crime than anyone should have to endure in one lifetime. I have suffered 180 crime incidents ranging from my car being written off to 'Die Bitch' daubed across the door and dog faeces pushed through the letter box, too.



In February to March of this year I contended with 23 incidents of bricks, bottles, etc., thrown at and through my windows in 28 days.



I have been advised by Victim Support not to leave the house alone and haven't in over 9 months. The days are long and the nights even longer - I haven't slept in a bed for almost 8 months for fear of petrol bombs which I have been threatened with.



I can hear you asking why I did what we are used to being proud as a country to do. I spoke out for justice and challenged yob culture. I have been to the local council who told me it was a police problem and they didn't help non-tenants. I went to the police who handled it badly with one incompetent mistake after another.



A police officer was found guilty of perverting the course of justice as he forged my name on a witness statement. Another senior officer told me not to phone anymore, because the crime figures were too high, just keep everything logged and he would collect the VT evidence, which now they admit was all lost. The officer was moved on with no action.



I have approached an environmental health officer who refused to help me because in his words: 'These people know where I live.'



I have written to, and had, a private meeting with my MP. His agent at our last meeting in August 2004 said 'I will come and see the problems for myself.' I'm still waiting.



I telephoned the Home Office as I had exhausted every avenue. They eventually sent a 'together action team' and held an action learning day for the local partnership. I was asked if I would like to draw up a plan and did so. I even got to meet one of the practitioners at my home. I showed him the problems first hand. I was full of hope.



I waited and waited and nothing changed. Eventually the Home Office told me the council would be writing to me as they thought the council was doing a 'good job.' So good that now even as an ASBO has been breached several times with serious offences, the father of the perpetrator who was Chairman of the Council until a few weeks ago and sat on the CDRP, (Crime Reduction Partnership) has refused to acknowledge my position.



I am at the end of the road, left with a beautiful detached house I can't live in. I can't let it unless I let to people who wouldn't mind living like this, and I haven't met any yet. I can't leave it empty. So I exist from day-to-day with just candles at night because if the lights go on, a brick comes through the window.



My MP, who wrote to me after our last meeting saying 'I hope you keep an occasional contact with the people in the village" But he has done nothing for me."



For more details, please contact Mercades using the details above.



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