A LANDLADY has slammed the police after learning a vandal who hurled rocks through the window of a busy pub will not be prosecuted.

The criminal was caught on CCTV approaching Chequers pub in High Street, Walthamstow, on a bicycle before hurling the rocks, narrowly missing a family, including a 10-year-old boy, enjoying a quiet drink last month.

Police refused to confirm the name of the 22-year-old man who admitted the crime and accepted a caution, but have not explained why.

Owner Anjita Patel is angry at a perceived soft approach to serious crime.

She said. “It’s unbelievable. Somebody could have been seriously injured.

“We caught it on camera but he still just gets a caution. It’s really frustrating.”

Mrs Patel said the thug was barred from the pub following a fight last year.

He has been forced off the premises a number of times since and has also been seen hanging around outside causing a nuisance.

Mrs Patel added: “In the past four or five months, we must have called the police 16 times about him. What’s the point?

“They are happy to just caution someone and let them go on their way after committing a crime.

“So that means I can just go down the street and smash someone’s window if I feel like it because all that will happen is a slap on the wrist, if that.”

Mrs Patel has written a letter of complaint to police, who told her she would have to go through the civil courts if she wanted to claim damages.

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