A hot-wired dumper truck smashed out of a building site and through two fences in the latest in a spate of vandalism attacks against a Basildon school.

Head of St Teresa's School, Barbara Cook, said today: "It is terrible children should witness this."

The parish priest and caretaker discovered the abandoned dumper truck in the school grounds, with the engine still running, during the half-term holiday.

Published Tuesday, February 25, 2003

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