I am not excusing what happened but what has not been put on the news from what I have seen is the other side of the story. For my sins the Village is only a few miles away from my house (the inbred etc comments had me almost spitting my lunch out with laughter, cheers EOB.)
They were not totally innocent themselves. They have previously been asked to quieten down as they were outside their houses in the streets at all hours of the day and night constantly drinking and causing havoc. Their kids ran riot in the streets and they were hoking through peoples bins and generally not being very nice people.