Puppy left comatose at party after being given pills

A Durrington family have been plunged into a living nightmare after a sleepover was gatecrashed by more than 50 teenagers and their house trashed.

Julia and Robert Anscomb went away for the night to London on Friday, February 22, leaving Mrs Anscomb's 15-year-old daughter at their home in Alberta Road to have a sleepover with two or three friends.

But when they arrived home the following day, after a phone call to say the sleepover had gone "wrong", they found more than 50 teenagers had gatecrashed, causing nearly £5,000-worth of damage to the newly-decorated home.



The family dog, five-month-old Bailey, had been drugged and was comatose on the kitchen floor. He was found chewing pills when the couple got home. Bailey has since recovered.

Mrs Anscomb's eldest daughter is currently staying with a friend.

"Parents are not allowed to discipline their children any more. She is now refusing to come home and I can't seem to do anything about it unless I go to court," Mrs Anscomb said.