POLICE are studying CCTV footage handed to them by Upper Stratton crime victim Valerie Hearn.

Mrs Hearn, 68, featured in the Advertiser after a vandal attack on her home was captured on CCTV, installed because of problems with vandals.

A group of seven teenagers were filmed hanging around her Derwent Drive bungalow.

In the film, one youth, a boy of around 16 who was wearing a white baseball cap, leaps over the fence and hurls a can of spray paint at the front door.

The attack smashed the double glazing, causing around £1,000 worth of damage, and left Mrs Hearn and her partner Roy Millin, 72, very distressed.

Mrs Hearn criticised the police for failing to send an officer to the scene when she called minutes after the incident at 12.45pm on March 14.

Since then, she has made a statement and has handed the footage to Upper Stratton community beat officer PC Steve Fletcher.

PC Fletcher said: "The film is useful, and we are now carrying out inquiries to try to establish the identity of the youths involved."

Anyone with information about the incident should contact PC Fletcher at Swindon police station on 528111.