Pensioner living in fear in King Edward Mobile Home Park

Christine Bicknell, 76, from Eastleigh, moved to the King Edward Mobile Home Park in Chandler’s Ford, after living in a similar park in Liverpool for decades with her husband.

After her husband passed away, Christine decided to move back down to Hampshire in August last year, to be closer to her son and family.

Seven months after she moved in, Christine found that her plant pots had been ripped from their stems and launched across her drive.

She filed a police report - but just over three weeks later, the plants were again found vandalised and strewn across the driveway.

The 76-year-old said: “I heard something going on outside.

By the time I had got to the window – all the plants I have grown had been ripped out of the pots.

“I’m not happy here at all. I have difficulties with my back and the stress this experience has caused me is tremendous."

The pensioner felt she would not be targeted if she had a man living with her - and said she had found the last few months 'very difficult'.

“I’m being harassed," she said. “Next they could damage my car.”

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Hampshire police said that they could not process the complaint as harassment due to a lack of evidence, but that the reports were filed as criminal damage complaints.

A spokesperson for the police said: “We can confirm we have received two reports of criminal damage.

“Both relate to a property at the King Edward Park site in Baddesley Road, Chandler’s Ford.

“One report, made on Monday 5 February, relates to damage to plant pots at the property, as well as some civil matters, on an unspecified date.

“The second report, made on Tuesday, February 20, relates to an incident on Monday 19 February, in which plant pots at the same address were reported to have been knocked over.

“Both incidents have been filed due to a lack of evidence, such as CCTV, to progress any investigation.”