Angry mum Anita Makin, 27, today said she was frightened to let her children play in Rectory Park Drive, Pitsea, after her five-year-old son Michael found a used syringe.

She said: "They always play out there but Michael came in with this syringe and I was not very happy."

Anita's concerns come just two weeks after other parents expressed fears to the police that drug addicts were using open spaces to inject themselves.

Published Friday August 9, 2002

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