Mike Brennan
Man whose car was trashed as he visited dying wife says he will emigrate to escape yobs
VANDALS who spray painted the car of a Thatcham man as he was visiting his dying wife in hospital have been told: “How would you feel if this happened to your family?” Fifty-five-year-old Michael Brennan of Oak Tree Road believes the incident is typical of the yob culture that has flourished in modern Britain. He says that family breakdown and an impotent legal system are to blame for the youngsters who lurk at night on street corners up and down the country.
And he is so sickened by the incident that he says he will be emigrating to Italy. Last Saturday, three days before his wife Lesley died of cancer, he and his son Drew visited her at the West Berkshire Community Hospital. As they came in, 26-year-old Drew spotted three 12-year-olds loitering nearby on bicycles. Later, as they left the hospital, they saw that Michael’s Volvo estate had been smeared with graffiti. With no faith in the police, the 55-year-old did not even bother to report the incident. Instead, he wants the people responsible for the crime to think more about the impact of their behaviour. “They know there are people in the hospital who are visiting others who are ill,” he said. “It could be their family.
They should be made to understand the reality of what they do, and face the people they did this to. How would they feel if this happened to their family?” He said he would be moving to Italy next year, and believes society there is in far better shape. “The family stick together, the parents take an interest,” he said. “People here need that. They should have more respect for other people.”
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