A TERRORISED Port pensioner lives around-the-clock in her bedroom because yobs have been battering her front windows and door at night-time for nearly THREE YEARS.

Wheelchair-bound Kathleen Tucker, 82, has suffered a heart attack after enduring barrages of missiles being hurled at her home, while the doors and windows have been punched and kicked.

Her worried daughter, Ann Williamson, told today of the misery the situation is causing the frail senior citizen.

She said: “I’m at my wits end with it all.

“It’s really stressing us all out, but especially mum.

“She’s so scared now that she took to her bedroom in June and she stays in there 24/7 because she’s just too frightened to sit in the living room.

“The windows and the door were hit almost every night last week.” Ann, 46 — who is also Kathleen’s full-time carer — says she is ‘at a loss’ to explain why her mum’s ground floor flat in Iona Road is being cruelly targeted.

She said: “Maybe it’s just because she’s an old woman who had been living on her own.

“It’s been happening on and off since mum moved here, which will be three years ago come next month.

“She can’t walk at all now because she has nerves pressing on her spine after a fall — she’s just a poor wee soul now.

“Nobody deserves this to be happening to them. It can be quiet for weeks and then just start again — it’s terrible.” Ann told how an array of items have been hurled at the property, including stones.

Her mum’s washing line has even been deliberately cut in the past.

She said: “We’ve had a can of Irn Bru thrown at the door and sometimes I’ve had to remove mud and grass from the windows.

“They punch the windows and the door gets booted too. The washing lines have been cut before, and washing stolen as well.

“The windows were hit three times in the space of five minutes one night last week.” Ann — who lives with Kathleen and her own daughter, Nicola, 18, in the flat — says that she has called out police on a number of occasions.

But because the incidents happen so quickly the perpetrators have vanished by the time officers arrive.

She said: “Mum suffered a heart attack in March and had to stay in hospital for a while, but she came out to this still going on.

“I have to give her a heart tablet as well now.

“It’s frightening to know that you’re being targeted in this way without any rhyme or reason to it.

“It normally happens between 8pm and 10pm at night. I’m sure it’s young boys who are doing it, but they just disappear.My mum just sits and cries sometimes. She’s petrified to come out of her room, and she just gets so upset about it.

“We just want the people who are doing this to realise the consequences of their actions, and for them to stop doing it.” Greenock police today confirmed they are aware of the incidents and said officers are working with community wardens who have access to mobile CCTV vehicles.

Sergeant Allan O’Hare said: “I can confirm that we have received a number of calls to Iona Road in relation to the ongoing issue of youths committing acts of anti-social behaviour.

“Our community officers have attended and spoken to the residents, offering advice and guidance, and patrols have been stepped up in the area in an effort to catch those responsible.” Sgt O’Hare added: “We are also working with our partners, the community wardens, to patrol the area and making use of their mobile CCTV cameras.

“I would ask that anyone who witnesses any incident at Iona Road or elsewhere in Inverclyde to call us on 101 or alternatively go through our partner agencies such as Inverclyde Council and and their anti-social behaviour 08000 131 701 helpline or anonymously call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”