THE vandal who daubed graffiti on 17 separate sites in a Worcestershire village has still not been caught.

Police said they have got someone they want to talk to in relation to the WR5/8 tags daubed on walls, telephone boxes, bus shelters, houses and even the parish hall in Kempsey but have not dragged them in for an interview yet.

PC Alan Naulls said: "Our enquiries are on-going at the moment and certainly nobody has been interviewed about it at this point. We have one or two leads. We have someone we are looking at that but that person has still be to be seen."

We previously reported in your Worcester News how residents in Kempsey were disgusted to find a series of similar scrawlings around the village over the course of a weekend at the beginning of the month.

The areas affected were:

  • The playing field
  • The pavilion roller shutter doors
  • The wall between the playing field and houses in Elgar Drive
  • The electricity sub station
  • The youth centre
  • The store belonging to the youth club
  • The store belonging to the Scouts
  • The playing field store next to the pavilion
  • The youth shelter
  • Play equipment in the children's play area
  • Houses in Post Office Lane
  • A wall in Post Office Lane
  • A wall in Old Road North
  • The Crown Inn
  • Skittle alley
  • The parish hall

Kempsey has suffered a series of problems with anti-social behaviour in the past three years including thefts from cars, vandalism to bikes, cars, and the wooden bridge over Hatfield brook in the Rocky conservation area.

Litter bins have also been set alight and residents suffered a week of mail disruption last year when the locks on post boxes were vandalised.

Anyone with any information on the graffiti should contact police on 08457 444888 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.