Vandals have torched a speed camera in Billericay.

The hooligans threw a tyre on top of the camera in Southend Road and set fire to it, police said.

An Essex Police spokesman said: "It's a sad reflection on whoever carried out this act and it's particularly poignant that it happened so near to the scene of a fatal accident."

Published Monday August 9, 2004

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