A disabled woman is in despair after a spate of vandalism attacks on her car and home.

Vandalised - June Maher examines the damage after the latest attack on her car. Picture: NICK OBANK (40227-2)

June Maher, of Fal Drive, Witham, suffers from the nerve and muscle wasting disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

This leaves her with a loss of feeling in her limbs and means she has to use the car to travel any distance from her home.

But over the past three months she has increasingly become a prisoner in her home after being targeted by thugs, who repeatedly scratched the paintwork of her car.

Mrs Maher, 55, said: "In two months my car has been vandalised six times, the last time on Thursday, and I have to pay £75 excess on it each time.

"I don't see how I can go on like this. They smashed my fence as well."

Mrs Maher said she feared she was being targeted because of her involvement with the Neighbourhood Watch group on the Humber Road estate.

Sgt Frances-Ruth Barker, of Witham police, said: "The police take incidents of harassment and damage very seriously, and have been working with Mrs Maher since mid-October in an effort to prevent as well as detect these offences."

Published Thursday, December 30, 2004

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