Alan Pullen is spending the festive season behind boarded-up windows after bricks were twice thrown at his home.

He was watching television at his flat in Cranham Drive, Warndon, when he heard the first smash.

Mr Pullen phoned the police immediately after the first incident at 4.30pm on Saturday, December 15, and was told someone would be with him straight away.

"My first reaction was to go out and see what happened in the kitchen - my window was put through with a half house-brick," said the 51-year-old, who usually looks after his three-year-old grand-daughter on a Saturday.

By 9pm no officer had arrived and he heard another bang as if somebody had tried unsuccessfully to throw another brick through his bedroom window.

At about 9.15-9.30pm he heard a smash in his bedroom and a brick had been thrown through that window too.

He called 999 again, and was told again that someone would come out, but nobody had arrived by the time he fell asleep at 2am.

An officer finally visited him on Sunday night, December 17, at 10.45pm - more than 24 hours after the first brick was thrown.

"It's left me quite scared. I do not know which room to go and sit in," he said.

"Why me? I do not upset anybody. I just want to live in peace. I keep myself to myself and that's me. I've got a nice flat where I happily live and that's where I want to stay."

No one from Worcester police was available to comment on the incidents.

Worcester Community Housing, which owns the flat, boarded up the windows, but said it could not fit new glass until January 15 and 16.

"That's the whole of Christmas and new year - I think it's dreadful. I am the innocent party here and it's me who is suffering," he said.

Mike Williams, head of operations at Worcester Community Housing, said as Mr Pullen had double-glazed windows they had to have the sealed units specifically made, and so could not get hold of them any sooner.

"We're in the hands of the manufacturers," he added.

Last month, the Worcester News reported how 60-year-old Abdul Gafur had waited for police to visit him after part of a concrete slab was thrown the window of his home in Laburnum Road, Tolladine, but they never arrived. West Mercia police said several unsuccessful attempts had been made to contact Mr Gafur by letter, telephone and home visit.