A 90-YEAR-OLD Cirencester woman was met with a sorry sight when opening her curtains to find vandals had caused considerable damage to her patio and been sick on her doorstep.

Sally Poole got a call from her distressed mum, who did not wish to be named, after she looked out of the window of her ground floor flat in Chesterton on Saturday morning.

“They knocked over plant pots, broke a statue, pushed over a heavy stone bird bath and, just for good measure, vomited all over the doorstep,” said Sally, from Tetbury.

She said the incident – which she believes was likely carried out by someone “drunk, on their way back from a night out” – would’ve happened sometime after 5pm on Friday, when her mum always draws her curtains for the night, and 8am when she gets up.

“It’s just very scary for her at her age, she’s almost 91. She lives alone and it was quite traumatic,” said Sally, who had rushed round to her mum’s after her call to clear up the mess.

“She has to live on the ground floor because of difficulties with mobility,” explained Sally, who rings her mum every morning between 7.30am and 7.45am to check she is okay.

“I’d already called her that morning just before that, but she was still in bed so wouldn’t have opened her curtains yet,” she explained.

Despite the damage done not being particularly costly, Sally said the statue had sentimental value.

“The little statue is of a lady, and my mum has had it for a long time. It was broken in half. It looked like they’d picked it up and placed it in a plant pot after breaking it.”

She said the bird bath is ‘very heavy’ and could have only been pulled over deliberately.

“Mum’s patio looks out over a communal garden and she has a chair out there she sits in in the summer,” she said. “It looks like they’d been sitting on that at some point too.”

Sally said the police have been informed.