Quiet New Year in town - except for one house party
Wednesday, 4th January 2012.
Police have reported one of the quietest New Years on record in Haverhill, as revellers chose house parties rather than town centre premises for celebrations.
The town's police chief, Insp Peter Ferrie, said it had been a very quiet weekend, although there was one incident which had spilled over into trouble, at a house on the Parkway estate.
"We were aware of house parties all over the town," he said, "so I think people bought drink in supermarkets and went round to each other's houses."
The incident which police attended, at St James Court around 10.30pm on New Year's Eve, resulted in two arrests after residents complained about a rowdy party, and it later spilled into the street.
Two youths aged 16 were arrested for affray, and one committed a minor assault on a police officer making the arrest.
One was reprimanded, and the other put on police bail. The house was then cleared out by police.
Insp Ferrie said he estimated between 70 and 80 youngsters aged 15 or 16 left the house and did not get to celebrate New Year's Eve as they had planned.
"They were alright about it," he said, "and just complaining that two idiots had spoiled it for the rest of them."
The town's police chief, Insp Peter Ferrie, said it had been a very quiet weekend, although there was one incident which had spilled over into trouble, at a house on the Parkway estate.
"We were aware of house parties all over the town," he said, "so I think people bought drink in supermarkets and went round to each other's houses."
The incident which police attended, at St James Court around 10.30pm on New Year's Eve, resulted in two arrests after residents complained about a rowdy party, and it later spilled into the street.
Two youths aged 16 were arrested for affray, and one committed a minor assault on a police officer making the arrest.
One was reprimanded, and the other put on police bail. The house was then cleared out by police.
Insp Ferrie said he estimated between 70 and 80 youngsters aged 15 or 16 left the house and did not get to celebrate New Year's Eve as they had planned.
"They were alright about it," he said, "and just complaining that two idiots had spoiled it for the rest of them."
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