A lifelong Liverpool FC fan feels scared in her own home after her car was smashed up outside.
Beryl Mealand was putting her bins out shortly before 10pm on Thursday February 24, when she noticed all of the windows on her Ford Fiesta had been smashed. The 70-year-old said the car, which she uses to visit her friends and family and to get to Liverpool games at Anfield, was parked outside her home on Litherland Road in Bootle at the time in the same place she always parks it.
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Beryl told the ECHO: "I remembered I had to put the binbag out. I took the bin bag out and I just saw it - every window was smashed in and all the bonnet was bashed in. I just don't know what happened or who's done it.
"I've lived here for six years and I've had no problems. I park in the same place all the time. I lost my son two years ago so I try not to stay in the house as much as I can.
"I was gutted, I was shaking and crying. I just don't understand why it's happened. I help everybody, if anyone needs anything doing I help them."
Beryl said she struggles to walk far and is awaiting an operation on her knee. She has made a claim on her insurance which has increased her insurance premium and she now has a replacement car. She added: "It's made me scared. I just keep checking [on the car] now. My son is going to get a camera put on the house."
A spokesperson from Merseyside Police said: "Officers were called to a report that a car had been vandalised outside a house on Litherland Road in Bootle on Thursday 24 February. It was reported that the windows of a red Ford Fiesta had been smashed between 11pm the night before and 9.45pm on Thursday 24 February.
"Officers have been in touch with the owner of the vehicle and reviewed CCTV footage in the area at the time of the incident."
Anyone who has any information is asked to contact @MerPolCC on Twitter or ‘Merseyside Police Contact Centre’ on Facebook or call 101 with reference 22000135833.
You can also call Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111, or their online form at https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/forms/give-information-anonymously.
