A SHOCKED eyewitness has described how they watched a group of yobs douse young girls in an unknown liquid.
Footage seen by the Gazette shows the youngsters cycling dangerously in Colchester’s Chesterwell estate, swerving in front of an oncoming car.
One boy at the back of the group then throws a two-litre bottle containing an unknown substance over a group of girls standing on the pavement in Wildeve Avenue.
The group of four boys then recklessly veer across the wrong side of the roundabout at the top of the carriageway and make off down Nayland Road.
A passenger in a car behind the youths captured the moment the group of girls were left soaked near the Gloriana Road junction, claiming the substance smelt like urine.
They said: “If these are your kids, please could you teach them some manners and the Highway Code.
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“The boy in the video threw a bottle of what smelt like urine at the group of girls.
“The boys were all over each side of the road and the path with no respect for road users or pedestrians.
“They were swearing and just being a nuisance and, frankly, a threat to themselves due to their road usage.”
Mile End councillor David King told the Gazette he believes perspective is needed on incidents such as this, but conceded there are “issues” with anti-social behaviour across Colchester.
“We do have issues, not just in Mile End, that go with youngsters who don’t show enough respect for others,” said Mr King.
“It is completely unacceptable and it takes a number of forms, there is a spectrum of behaviour from youngsters not respecting their neighbours and those around them.”
Mr King, who leads Colchester Council, revealed the other day he witnessed a shouting match between older residents and youngsters elsewhere in the city.
“We have to apprehend and educate these people when we can and expect and require better,” he added.
“But we have no reason to think children in this age are anymore challenging than they have been in others.
“Youngsters play up and we have to address it as productively as we can.”
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