A MUM has told of how she returned from a family holiday in Cornwall to discover her house had been destroyed by “hooligans” after her son’s Facebook party spiralled out of control.
Author Clare Empson had allowed her son Jake, then 16, to leave a family holiday early to travel back to Dorset for a party.
What the mum-of-three didn’t know was that the party was at her house.
Despite the fact that Jake had returned to Dorset without a key, he had broken into the house through the catflap.
The party had been posted on Facebook and a guest list of 25 soon turned into 200 when word got out about the gathering.
Jake, who is now at university, was forced to face his parents as they returned to find their home trashed.
“The carpets were ruined, almost turned black with footprints” Clare explained in The Guardian.
“There were alarming drops of blood on the walls, which were also filthy, and a cupboard door had been wrenched off its hinges.
“No room was left undamaged.”
All of the beds had been slept in, there were cigarette butts scattered on the sofa and a priceless Gurka knife belonging to Clare’s father-in-law had gone missing, eventually showing up behind the TV.
Speaking to the Daily Mail she added: “A picture was emerging — random, mindless hooliganism in a deserted farmhouse in the West Country.
There were alarming drops of blood on the walls, which were also filthy, and a cupboard door had been wrenched off its hinges
Clare Empson
“Our son’s go-kart had been tossed in the air until it crash-landed into three unfixable pieces (we saw video footage on Facebook) and two bikes were missing.
“The hedges revealed bin liners full of cans and bottles.”
Initially furious Clare and her husband John grounded their distraught son and confiscated his phone, before making him foot the bill for any damages.
But soon enough the parents got wind of other gatherings taking place nearby and rather than have the same thing happen again elsewhere, encouraged Jake to hold them at their house – as long as they were present.
Clare told the Guardian: “When you live in the sticks, as we do, there are few places for teenagers to go.
“Chances are they are going to see their friends and get drunk anyway, and they need a safe place to do it.”
Clare’s debut novel HIM is available to buy now.
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