A youth chatted on the phone while he and two friends vandalised cars and threw bins at motorists in Thames Ditton last month, according to witnesses.

Surrey Police are investigating after the group set upon cars parked along High Street in the early hours of Saturday, January 23.

The police were contacted between 12.08am and 12.30am, after residents saw youths kicking cars parked near the Fountain roundabout.

The youths then turned their attention to throwing bins at cars driving past.

They then snapped the windscreen wiper off one of the parked cars, a red Ford Fiesta, before leaving the scene on foot.

Two of the youths were white and in their late teens or early 20s. One had floppy blond hair and was wearing a white T-shirt, dark jeans and trainers, while the other was wearing a hooded top.

The third youth was mixed race, the same age and also wearing a hooded top.

A witness said he was talking on his mobile phone during the incident.

Keith Evetts, from the Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents’ Association, said this was one of a small number of yobbish outbreaks in the area, but residents were on the whole impressed with how the police had fought antisocial behaviour.

He said: “There has been significantly less antisocial behaviour in the past two years and this is because the police are responding to our concerns and giving it priority.

“They have successfully targeted the places where these youths congregate and get up to no good. We have seen much less criminal damage recently.”

Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information on the identity of the youths should call Surrey Police on 0845 1252222, quoting reference EL/10/512, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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