War veteran left shaken after bricks are thrown through his windows and front door

A 75-year-old said he "could have been killed" when bricks were thrown through the windows of his house.

Robert Long, from Crosby , said five heavy bricks were thrown at his property, smashing three windows and damaging his front and internal door.

The war veteran says he was in his house at the time of the incident when he heard what sounded like a "wardrobe falling over" at around 7.4pm, on October 7.

Robert said some of the bricks had even gone up the stairs in his house and he was left "shaken" by the incident, which he feared could have been a lot worse.

Robert Long has been left with boarded up windows and doors on his house after the incident (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

The granddad told the ECHO : "It's just the state of the country at the moment.

"It is a residential area - there were five bricks and weighed about seven pounds each.

"It sounded like a wardrobe falling over and then I saw some of the bricks up the stairs.

The bricks damaged three windows and his front and internal door (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

"The front and the internal doors were badly damaged and three windows were damaged.

"I could have been hit with them.

"It would have killed me if I was walking past there."

The 75-year-old said he has now had to pay around £1,000 in costs and has been left with his windows boarded up.

He added: "They shouldn't be getting away with it and I want to make people aware in the area that this is happening.

"All in all its cost me about £1,000, it's costing me an inconvenience.

Robert Long said the bricks looked like ones that had come from a nearby knocked down wall (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

"I have had to put a new camera in and the fella had to put in all new sockets and everything.

"I had to pay out for the policy as well - it's going take about a fortnight to get it all sorted and you're forced into doing these things."

Robert said following the incident he noticed the bricks were of the same brand of a wall, which had been knocked down in a nearby road.

He said: "There was an electrical box in a nearby road that had been knocked down and and they were called London Bricks.

"The ones thrown at my house were also called London Bricks."

"I just don't know why it happened."

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "We can confirm a report of criminal damage to a house in Brighton-le-Sands was received at around 8.30pm on Monday, 7 October.

"It was reported that an unknown offender had thrown a brick through the window of a property on Holden Road.

"Anyone with information is asked to contact @MerPolCC, 101 quoting ref. 19100580471 or @CrimestoppersUK, anonymously on 0800 555 111."