POLICE in Liskeard want anyone with CCTV or ring doorbell footage to come forward after a spate of criminal damage to vehicles.

Cars and vans parked in Caradon Heights, Carlton Way and Clover Drive were targeted overnight between Sunday 22 and Monday 23 November.

Residents awoke to find their vehicles covered in large scratches, looking like they’d been “keyed”.

“Officers are currently investigating ten crimes but we believe there could be more,” said a spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police.

“Members of the Liskeard Neighbourhood Policing Team have been in the area speaking to residents.”

One woman who contacted the Cornish Times, whose car was damaged on the Trevethan Meadows estate, said: “Last night approximately 20 if not more cars up here, and along to Addington were keyed. Annoyingly our CCTV was on charge, we may never find the individual who has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to our cars four weeks before Christmas.”

A resident of Caradon Heights says both his and his partner’s cars were targeted. “It was very deliberate,” he said.

“It looks like they’ve walked all the way from Persimmon (Trevethan Meadows) and up to our estate and scratched everything. It’s not like they’ve skipped by – they’ve gone down driveways to scratch cars. It’s someone that doesn’t have any respect, probably for themselves, let alone for anyone else.”

Police urge anyone with information – particularly CCTV footage – to call 101, or email 101@dc.police.uk, quoting crime reference number CR/098470/20.