A PENSIONER with heart problems ended up in hospital when youths targeted his home in an OAP complex.

Peter Mitchell, 66, was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, with a suspected heart attack which his anxious wife believed was brought on by a gang of teenage boys tormenting them.

Dilys Mitchell, 54, said they had called police to their flat in Llanderfel Court, Thornhill, Cwmbran, twice in the last week as their window was pelted with logs, mud and eggs. Luckily, the glass didn't smash, but the incidents left the couple shaken.

Mrs Mitchell said: "On Monday night, they threw two logs at the window. Peter had only just got off to sleep after taking his oxygen and it was 'bang! bang!' on the window, which woke him up suddenly. Then on Wednesday, they threw eggs. They missed the window, but it was all over the wall.

"My husband suffers with angina and has to have a wheelchair and this agitated him beyond belief. With angina you can't afford to get agitated and I'm sure that's what put him in hospital."

Herself an angina sufferer, she said she was desperately trying to keep herself calm, despite worrying about his health as he remained in hospital.

And she said her husband - who was born in Bury, Greater Manchester - claimed the estate was worse than Manchester's notorious Moss Side.

Neighbour Betty White, 78, said there hadn't been problems for a long time until the latest attacks.

She said: "These boys seem to be picking on the Mitchells' flat. There were ten or 12 of them outside on Monday night. I didn't go through a war to put up with this kind of rubbish. They must have grandparents, but they have no respect for anything."

Another neighbour, who didn't wish to be named, said she had been unnerved by someone kicking and rattling the side door to the complex at around 8.30pm one night.

The 69-year-old said: "They are trying to frighten us all. It's probably just kids having a laugh, but if they think they're tormenting us, then they'll do it all the more."

Cwmbran police confirmed inquiries were ongoing into the incidents.