THE grave of young road victim has been desecrated in the latest outrage against a family still reeling from the loss – and at the same time suffering in a bitter vendetta.

Grieving father Paul Gaudian says the latest incident, in which a picture of son James was actually wrenched off its gravestone setting, is almost the last straw.

"My wife Mary is in hospital with a nervous breakdown. She cannot take any more. Now I'm at my wits' end – the police just don't seem to be able to do anything about it," he said.

"I have been out to the churchyard at Itton to clean it up on Sunday, but the churchwarden told me the gravestone has already been knocked over once and reset. What will I find next? I'm already going out there twice a day."

Mr Gaudian, who lives in Sedbury, said a string of other atrocities and damage had been committed against his family and he had a fairly good idea who was doing it.

A former boyfriend of one of his two daughters appeared to be behind family cars being sprayed with paint stripper, smashed house windows, and malicious graffiti messages scrawled on road signs at Sedbury and the M4 access at the Severn Bridge.

"It has been going on now for about three years. The trouble is there is no proof. The police appear powerless," he said.

"The incidents have happened in Sedbury and over the river in Chepstow and at my other daughter's home in Wales, so reports are being dealt with by three different forces. It is time somebody got it all together and made a combined effort to put a stop to it."

James died after a road accident on the A48 near the Sedbury turn five years ago.