A COUPLE say yobs on a Golcar estate are creating havoc and making their life hell.

Beverley Astin, 41, and Timothy Hepworth, 36, moved to Beech Avenue on the Sycamore estate two-and-a-half years ago.

Since then the pair have had to scrap two cars after yobs trashed them, fireworks have been lit and pushed through their letterbox, and paint has been daubed across the front door.

Now they are demanding that Kirklees Council listens to their pleas for a move. Wheelchair-bound Mr Hepworth and Ms Astin, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, say they are at breaking point.

Ms Astin said: "It is like being in prison. I am not afraid of the gangs of kids, but I do hate going out.

"They run across the cars on this street and dent all the roofs and bonnets. Within a few months of moving here we had to scrap a car.

"It started by just being vandalised and scratched. Finally it was stolen and smashed into a bus stop down the road.

"We did not claim on the insurance because it was an old car. We just saved and bought another - but now they have done the same to that.

"The kids are out of control and do exactly what they want. I tell them off and that is why I get more aggravation.

"But I will not just sit back and let them get away with it.

"Once they walked past my open window and just pushed a plant off my window sill and it smashed on the floor. They just don't care."

Mr Hepworth, who was left a paraplegic after a motorbike accident 16 years ago, said he could not continue living on the estate much longer.

"I don't know what we are going to do if the council can't help us," he said. "They tell us to ring the police after every incident. We have done - but we just get a crime number and that is the end of it.

"I am not one to moan, but it is getting to the point now where we need something sorting out."

Mr Hepworth also says he cannot get about the house because improvements have not been made to make it wheelchair- friendly.

A spokeswoman for Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing said: "Now the matter has been brought to our attention we will be carrying out an investigation. We will be contacting Ms Astin and Mr Hepworth directly with regard to their concerns."