On October 31st around 8pm a despicable gesture of unkindness occurred in the serene neighbourhood of Goodmayes. Halloween is usually a night of fun jovial time for children. Unfortunately, there are those rare occurrences that are destructive and mischievous.

The Patel family suffered during the night and they were stuck cleaning their windows. Someone had egged their house!

A devastated Mrs Patel says: “we were supposed to take our kids out for trick-or-treating, now I don’t think we can.”

She relayed that she was in the living room getting her children ready and collecting the buckets for trick-or-treating when, all of a sudden, she heard a crashing sound from the window and sounds of wild laughter. As fast as she could, she raced outside on natural instinct to see what was going on but only saw a blur of indistinctive figures running away from her house. Her kids were terrified and were no longer in the mood to go trick-or-treating for the fear of encountering the mysterious figures again.

Mr. Patel wanted to used this an an opportunity to prevent people from egging houses in the future. He saw it as vandalism and remarked that egging peoples houses “leads to hassle for those who have been egged as they have to clean up after the nuisances” he believes that “a person should think twice before they decide to commit such terrible acts to innocent people who did nothing to deserve it”

Halloween is a time for light hearted pleasure not a time for violence and destruction.

Simrat Kaur , GGSK College