Homes and cars attacked with paintball guns

Police have appealed for information after properties and vehicles in Newport were blasted with orange paint on Thursday evening.

Residents were targeted in the Hampton Drive and Stafford Road areas of the town between 7pm and 9pm, while similar incidents were reported in nearby Gnosall.

Constable Lee Thomas from Newport's safer neighbourhood team said they believed two women may also have been attacked by vandals and that it was lucky no injuries had been reported.

He said: "Witnesses have told us that the paintball gun was being fired from a moving vehicle"

"We have also received information that two females were struck by the paintball pellets but as yet they have not reported the assaults on themselves to police and we would especially urge them to come forward as soon as possible."

"We will be liaising further with our colleagues in Staffordshire Police and working with them to try and identify the person or persons responsible."

"It's perhaps more a matter of luck than judgement that nobody that we know of yet has been injured during these incidents."

"People who go paintballing wear a lot of padding for a reason, being struck by the pellets can be very painful and cause bruising and other injuries."

"If one of these pellets had struck someone in the face at close range goodness knows what the outcome may have been."