Park bleach attacker: 'Enough was enough'

7:30pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

Comments (6)   Have your say »

A furious woman who threw a 16-year-old girl to the ground and sprayed her boozy friends with bleach has spoken out about the attack for the first time.

The 53-year-old woman, who wants to remain anonymous, admitted she was sorry she had hurt the 16-year-old girl in the incident in Rosebery Park on May 9.

"People have sex in the bushes yards from our house. They leave discarded underwear on the benches. It's been hell on earth and we think enough is enough."

But she said the huge amount of noise the students were making caused her to react after seven years of disruption.

She said: "At night over the last seven years, we've been kept awake until 3am by young people in the park. They've been dealing drugs, riding scooters in the park and having sex, and vandalising the swings. We hear it all.

"People have sex in the bushes yards from our house. They leave discarded underwear on the benches. It's been hell on earth and we think enough is enough.

"They're probably middle class kids but when they're out with their male friends, they make a huge amount of noise, keeping us awake all night. But their parents don't know they're doing anything wrong because when they go home, they're as quiet as mice.

"I went out, got hold of one of the girls and floored her. I took an empty bleach bottle and I filled it with water to scare them."

The woman, who has now made the decision to move as a result of the constant disruption, said she was stunned when police turned up and arrested her.

"It is the first time I've been in trouble with police. I was shocked when they arrested me, because the students making all the noise had obviously gone home and said they hadn't done anything wrong.

"Perhaps they were just there at the wrong time. I don't know if they're regulars. I can't even go out now and tell them off because I'm scared.

"The people writing into the paper against me haven't got to live with this stuff all summer."