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The police are under fire for ignoring numerous calls from the desperate mother pleading for help to tackle the gangs who had bullied her children and terrorised the family over 11 miserable years. But the shocking story raises disturbing questions that go far beyond Bardon Road, where the family lived. It raises wider questions about the state of Britain today, about how we tackle persistent anti-social behaviour and how we protect and care for the more vulnerable members of our society. Bardon Road is part of a council estate, an ordinary road in an ordinary village. Some residents have bought their houses from the council and many clearly take pride in looking after their homes. The area has a few known drug-dealers and there are occasional burglaries. There is some graffiti – one local has changed the Bardon Road sign to read "Bordom Road". A local leader said there were "strong suspicions" that the area was used as a "dumping ground" for troublesome families from other estates, though the council denies this.

It was in this unexceptional area that groups of children, aged from 10 to 18, were allowed to wreak havoc among their neighbours. "It started as soon as you drew the curtains at night," said Dave Smith, 72, who has lived in the road for 40 years. "They threw eggs, stones and even dog muck at your door and windows and jumped on the hedges. "They think it's funny but it was very frightening for a lot of people." When her house was under siege Mrs Pilkington did what she thought was the right thing: she called police – 22 times between 2000 and 2007. But none of the gang was arrested, charged or prosecuted. Eight of the reports she made to police in 2004 were marked "incident closed". A neighbour said yesterday: "They aren't worried about the police because they knew that all they would get is a slap on the wrist. If you say anything to them they just give you a mouthful. "They have no discipline or respect and their parents obviously don't care. It's not just in this area. It's going on everywhere in this country."

Fiona Pilkington and her children Francecca, known as "Frankie", and Anthony, who has severe dyslexia and was staying with his grandmother the night his mother and sister died, were singled out for remorseless persecution. For years the family was subjected to bullying, mockery and intimidation. The gang took particular delight in ridiculing the children's disabilities. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that two months before Mrs Pilkington's death police officers attended a parish council meeting at the village hall in which residents expressed concern that youths were tormenting "vulnerable" families in Bardon Rd. Andre Wheeler, 62, the chairman of Barwell parish council, said: "We all feel guilty that we should have done more. But the police and the housing association knew about the problem and they did nothing." Neighbours said that Mrs Pilkington "made the mistake" of confronting the yobs. "Confrontation is what they want," she said. Nobody, it seems, was prepared to step in and help her.

"Fiona gave the impression that she was coping all right," one neighbour said. "She wasn't somebody who went round complaining." But behind the stoical façade Mrs Pilkington was sliding into despair. Seven years before her death, she broke up with her husband, Simon Hardwick, the father of her children. She then had what was described as an "on-off relationship" with another man. Doreen Davies, who moved into the house next door a month before Mrs Pilkington's death, said: "She was friendly, a nice neighbour, but she was finding it hard to cope. "Her husband had left her and it was a struggle looking after two children with serious disabilities. Then she had the youths attacking their house and bullying her children. I think it was a combination of things that pushed her over the edge." Mrs Pilkington's mother, Pam Cassell, 72, from nearby Earl Shilton, told the inquest in Loughborough that her daughter had tried to kill herself and her children in 2005. She took the children and pets in the car, and bought petrol and candles, but changed her mind.

"Fiona said it was because nobody was doing anything to help," Mrs Cassell said. Mrs Pilkington also wrote twice, in 2004 and 2007, to her MP, David Tredinnick, asking for help, again to no avail. On the day she died, October 24, 2007, Mrs Pilkington left five letters explaining that she was at the end of her tether. "What do you do. Take another 11 years of criminal damage and abuse?", she wrote. "What do I have to do to get my street back to a normal one so people can go out at night?" On Friday night, as darkness fell, small groups of youths were back on Bardon Rd. None would admit to any part in tormenting Mrs Pilkington's family but all knew a lot about what had happened. "The bullying was bad," said one 15-year-old. 'It was wrong but you don't expect people to kill themselves over it. It's a big shock.' Rob '18, wearing a grey hooded jacket, said: "There's nothing for kids to do around here. We need a youth centre." We knocked at the door of a family described by locals as 'troublemakers'.

A surly, sallow-faced youth, in a grey hoodie and munching a slice of white bread, opened the door. "We ain't done nothin' and we ain't saying nothin'," he said, before slamming the door shut. Villagers agree that the area has improved since the shock of the two deaths. There are now regular police patrols and officers break up groups of more than four youths. One of the families known to cause trouble has been moved out – they deliberately trashed their house before they left. "It is a bit better," a local shopkeeper said. "I still have to deal with a bit of nicking and abuse but it used to be much worse. It's just a shame it took such a tragedy to change things." Mr Smith said: "Things have improved but they were very bad and we still have problems with local youths. "Communities seem to have lost the spirit and the discipline they had when we moved here all those years ago. "We need to get that back, start looking after each other again, and showing respect. And people should start with their own children."