VANDALS damaged cars and homes in Billericay during an early morning attack on residential streets.

Police are investigating six incidents of criminal damage that happened in the early hours of Sunday, September 22.

Four offences were reported in Pleasant Drive where damage was caused to a front door, two large garden ornaments were thrown at a silver Volkswagen Passat, the rear windscreen of a silver Mini Cooper convertible was smashed and the bonnet of a silver Ford Fiesta was also damaged.

In Linda Gardens a terracotta plant pot was smashed and in Cherry Gardens an offensive word was scratched in to the bonnet of a blue Ford Focus.

The incidents were all discovered when the victims woke up on Sunday morning.

Anyone with information can contact PC Ross Evins at Basildon police station on 101.