A dad claims his car was deliberately scratched by a schoolboy as "years of issues" continue on a Wirral street.
Andrew Beal lives on Heath Road in Bebington, near Wirral Grammar School for Boys. He claims he and other residents have suffered from issues connected with the school for some time, which have left them "sick and tired".
The issues, which include parking and traffic congestion, are said to be most prominent in afternoons when parents come to collect their children from school. Andrew said the road is incredibly busy, which has led to accidents, while cars are often parked across his drive.
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On Wednesday (February 15), Andrew's CCTV caught a schoolboy appearing to touch his car in what he believes was an attempt to damage it. Andrew claims his car is now scratched and he is at his "wit's end" after years of issues.
He told the ECHO: "The previous issues caused me to get the CCTV set up. On the CCTV, I saw on Wednesday, a group of boys from the school walked past my car.
"It looked like one of the boys tried to scratch the car. There is a scratch to the car. I can’t prove it was him, but there is a scratch."
This latest issue follows one in December, when Andrew said a parent collecting their child from the school threatened him and his son. He said incidents such as these led him to installing CCTV cameras.
Andrew added: "It’s been going on for years. In December, I came home from collecting my son from his school and there was a car parked across my driveway.
"I tooted my horn at him and he moved on but then he threatened me and my seven-year-old son with physical violence and verbal abuse. He put his finger up and shouted ‘f*** you’.
Andrew reported this incident to Merseyside Police, but said it was not the first time he has been verbally abused for asking drivers to move. Andrew said he has raised the issues with the school many times but nothing has yet been done to improve matters.
Emails seen by the ECHO show Andrew complaining to the school about parents and pupils parking across his driveway. In a reply to Andrew, the school's headteacher said she would "continue to reiterate this message (parking across driveways) with both the pupils and parents"
However, Andrew is not confident matters will improve. He said: "I'm at my wit's end. It keeps going on. The issues have been raised with the school but the neighbours are sick and tired of it. We shouldn’t have to put up with this or the abuse.
"It’s frustrating the entire road, other people have complained. People are so angered, there’s been years of issues."
Wirral Grammar School for Boys was contacted for comment.
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