Elderly Couple Forced Into Darkness After Four Years Of Vandalism

An elderly couple has been forced to board up their windows and live in virtual darkness to stop people attacking their home.

Charles Kingham, 86, and partner Pauline Moore, 68, have spent thousands repairing their seaside bungalow in Lincolnshire which has been targeted by vandals for the past four years. 

They believe the abuse started after they reported anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhood in 2011. 

Ever since, they have been bombarded with attacks, having the windows smashed with eggs, stones and even golf balls.

The couple have also had cooking fat splashed across the walls and path and have had people banging on their front door at odd hours and urinating on their flowers.

Now the pair is so fed-up of replacing broken panes of glass they have nailed wooden boards over the windows of their home, leaving the house in permanent gloom.

Kingham and Moore, who have been together for 40 years, bought the two-bedroom property for £35,000 in 1987 and spent two years converting it into their dream home.

It is now worth £100,000 but the couple believe it will now only sell for a knock-down price of £60,000.

Ms Moore said: ‘This house was a dream home but our life has been made a living hell.

‘We can't sell and are just stuck here so we've barricaded ourselves in. It's the only thing we could think of doing to stop the abuse.’