Care home residents terrified after unruly children repeatedly rampage through their building

Elderly care home residents have become prisoners in their own homes as gang of 20 'feral' yobs repeatedly rampaged through their building whose front door is broken. Nearly two dozen unruly children have “run amok” inside the building, shoving over fences and climbing on the roof. The door of Rectory Close in Snodland, Kent has reportedly been broken for over a month and now anyone can access the building at any hour, leaving vulnerable pensioners enduring sleepless nights and fearing leaving their rooms. The elderly residents, some of whom are bedbound, are left alone and afraid during the weekend once the warden clocks off at 4pm on Friday. The door is reportedly still broken despite multiple residents calling for help from Clarion Housing Group, who run the home, though the housing group claimed the door was fixed on Friday. In a video filmed last Friday resident Adrian Coleman, 60, opened the broken door without any security and claimed it was repeatedly left wide open. He described the group of young people running into the building and causing chaos. The torment follows several months of chaos caused by 11 to 16-year-old youths tearing through the town of Snodland in Kent. Town residents reported the youngsters have vandalised cafes, thrown stones over nursery fences, and forced a funeral directors and the village Domino’s pizza branch to close because of their behaviour. Adrian described struggling to sleep because he is terrified “anything could happen.” He said: "The kids have been running amok inside the building, pushing over the fences outside and climbing on the roof. "It's given me terrible anxiety and stress and left me with trouble sleeping as I'm scared anything could happen if they get in. "There's so many vulnerable people in the home, some who are bed-bound, and they could be real targets for them. "I don't even want to leave the village because I'm scared about what will happen." Christine Blair, 83, has lived at Rectory Close for over 16 years and said she has never felt so unsafe. She said: "I pay around £800 a month with rent and bills to feel unsafe in my own home. "The door hasn't been shut properly for four weeks now. When the warden leaves on Friday at 4pm we're left on our own until 8am on Monday. "I feel like where Clarion are such a big company and we're just a home in Snodland they don't care. "But the children don't care either, some of the language you hear from them running around the streets is dreadful, but if you challenge them you get a target on your back." Mary Chapman, 68, Janet Allen, and a third resident who wanted to remain anonymous are all calling for the door to be fixed urgently so they can feel safe. Mary said: "That door is accessible by anyone 24 hours a day, which is terrifying. "We've had people come in to look at the doors who are carpenters and can't do anything because the door is metal. "It just seems like we are an inconvenience, but it's our safety. Anyone could come in here at night and we wouldn't know until it's too late." Fearful residents described the gang of children as “feral.” However, Clarion Housing Group said the door was fixed. A spokesperson said: “The safety of our residents is our number one priority and we apologise for the length of time it has taken to fix the door entry system at Rectory Close which required a complex repair. "Our contractors have been on site over the last few days working on the system and we are pleased to report that it is now fully operational.” Over the road from the retirement home a group of 10 unruly youths reportedly vandalised a cafe while a chess club was being held just over a week ago. The yobs stole red and brown sauce from the Pavilion Café and squeezed it all over the benches and walls. They were seen making noise outside the building on Monday before covering it in sauce. Pavilion Café owner Nicola Parker, 47, has worked there for 13 years. She said: “[I have] never seen anything like it.” “Every year you get a group of children who are a bit mischievous or anti-social, but this lot are something else. "They are feral and get pleasure out of hurting or scaring anyone, including old people. "The veranda was caked in sauce the next morning and the chess club chairman explained to me what had happened. "Myself and other businesses have been calling on the police to do something for some time, but nothing has happened and sooner or later businesses are going to take things into their own hands. "I shouldn't have to wake up and worry about what's going to happen to my café every day because of some children. "They are just dead set on trouble."