Tyre slasher on wrecking spree

Around 10 cars were targeted in Cornwall Road, Tettenhall, and five others were left with punctures near the ambulance station off Regis Road in Wolverhampton.

Residents, who face repair bills running into hundreds of pounds, are baffled as to why their streets were targeted.

A neighbour alerted Cornwall Road resident Eric Bateman to the damage to his Nissan Primera vehicle.

Mr Bateman, aged 62, had to change the back left tyre of his car after it was wrecked by yobs and said the whole street was amazed at the destruction.

He continued: "We are just aghast. It was something that doesn't normally around here.

"It's quite shocking. We don't know what to do about it, we just hope it doesn't happen any more," he said.

Ron Ward was woken by his neighbour, who told him the front and back tyres on his Vauxhall Corsa had been slashed. He said: "It's irritating and exasperating.

"There are people walking about late at night and you don't know what's going on," he explained. Mr Ward, aged 67, said it must have happened in the early hours of yesterday morning and he had to wait all day for his tyres to be repaired.

And Roy Bayley, who is aged 25 and lives on Cornwall Road, has had to fork out at least £80 to repair two tyres on his VW Golf.

Mr Bayley, who works for HM Revenue & Customs, said: "I have had to have the day off work. They were as flat as a pancake."

He added that Cornwall Road was normally a very quiet area but this attack came just a week after thieves snatched an indicator from his vehicle.