A HAMPSHIRE family has been hounded out of their home by racist hooligans.
In the latest attack the thugs ransacked the family's home causing £15,000-worth of damage and daubed racist slurs across the walls.
Now the Punia family are too scared to return to their home in Locks Heath and has been forced to seek refuge out of the area.
The racists first attacked their home in July but returned at the weekend breaking in and smashing windows, breaking furniture, pulling out lights, and punching holes in doors.
Bob Punia, 58, says his wife Sukwinder Kaur, 35, and their three children - aged five, three and one - have been left terrified.
Mr Punia, a carpenter who often stays away through work and has another house nearby, said he was in despair after finding out the latest damage to his home.
He said: "They smashed up my phone, the lights, my pictures, chairs, they've burnt things - everything's gone, I just don't know what to do. It's going to cost at least £10,000 or £15,000 to put right.
"I think the people just do this because I am a coloured man. My family are too scared to live here. These people are trying to make me move from here but I don't want to move - I've been living here since 1971."
Mr Punia said he was shocked and distraught at the extent of the damage to the house in Lodge Road, Locks Heath, which he discovered when he arrived back from working away on Saturday afternoon.
Racist remarks had been daubed on the walls with his wife's make-up, furniture had been broken up and his belongings strewn about the house.
There were empty lager bottles and cans everywhere and holes had been burnt in the beds and sofas.
He said: "It's terrible, I really can't believe it. I came back here this morning to try and sort it out because there was a window broken last week, and I found this.
"I was living here more often but then I gave up because I'm too scared. What can I do I can't do anything."
Mr Punia claims clothing, jewellery and other property was stolen from the house and damage done to the cooker and windows when a group of youths broke in two months ago.
He said: "I don't even want to tell people where I'm living because somebody might come after me.
"I don't know who's doing this but I never had any trouble before. The other day I came here at about 10.30pm and there were two blokes standing down there just getting a knife out, and I drove away."
A neighbour said the house had been broken into several times since May, and he saw three youths climbing in through a broken window on Friday night.
"The premises are always being broken into. We try and keep an eye on it and I've called the police out three times this week. I believe once before it was used by people on drugs and it's a fairly quiet neighbourhood round here and we want to keep it that way," he added.
Neighbour Rosemary Cole said: "When I first came here it was just the young lady and two little kids living there - I didn't know them too well but they seemed like a nice family. This is terrible."
Sergeant Derek Hibbard, based at Portsmouth police control room, said three youths seen near the house on Friday night had been questioned by officers and further enquiries were being made.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Park Gate police station on 0845 0454545.
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