I was appalled when I listened to a message left on my answerphone to say that the Thamesdown Hydrotherapy Pool had been vandalised.

I have been taking my six year old son, who suffers with Perthes Disease, to the pool every week as part of his pain management.

These mindless thugs have deprived my son, and hundreds of other people who rely on the pool for therapy, of an important part of recovery.

I doubt they will catch who did this, but I just hope one day, these thugs don't have to go through what many of pool users have been though, to find it snatched away in an instant by reckless idiots.

Emma Girard

Highworth