A young couple say they are the victims of a race-hate mob who want to drive them out of their neighbourhood.

Pramod and Khyati Trivedi, who are of Indian origin, suffered two attacks on their home in Buttershaw, Bradford, last weekend when their kitchen and bedroom windows were smashed.

In May, racist graffiti was daubed on the side wall of their house in Churn Drive, while paint was splattered all over the kitchen windows, front door and car.

Mr Trivedi, 35, said he was in bed shortly before midnight on Friday when a brick came crashing through the bedroom window, sending shards of glass across the room.

The next evening, another brick was hurled through the kitchen window. Mrs Trivedi, 25, was at home with the couple's ten-month-old baby Vidhika.

Police say they are treating the latest two attacks on the Trivedi's home as "hate incidents".

Mr Trivedi said: "I think these are racist attacks. They are trying to drive us out because they don't want an Asian family living in the street. I think I'm the only Asian in the road.

"The whole thing is terrifying. I knew it was a bit of a rough area but we never expected this."

Mr Trivedi said he was considering putting CCTV cameras outside the house and he has also asked police to install spy cameras to help catch the offenders.

He said: "When I'm at work, I'm afraid every time the phone goes in case it's my wife ringing to say it's another incident.

"I don't know why they have a problem with me. I lived in Wyke before in a street where it's 99 per cent white and I never had a single problem in five-and-a-half years."

Sergeant Osman Khan, of Bradford South Neighbourhood Policing Team East, said: "We are treating both incidents as hate incidents. We have carried out house-to-house inquiries in the area as well as increasing patrols to provide reassurance."

Mr Trivedi said he was frustrated no-one had been brought to justice over the paint incident. He said: "They found a guy's fingerprints on a tin of paint but decided it could have been someone else who actually did it, so nothing ever came of it."

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: "In relation to the incident at the address in May one person was arrested and a file was submitted to the CPS for consideration - no further action was taken."

A spokesman for the CPS said: "We have to be satisfied that there's a realistic prospect of conviction and in this case the prosecutor felt it did not meet the evidential test."

Ward Councillor Val Slater (Lab, Royds) said: "I'm very disturbed to hear that this is happening on the Buttershaw estate.

"Following regeneration and the mixed housing that has been put up, it's an estate that's becoming desirable and it's worrying that this sort of behaviour has crept in. It must be the work of a misguided few because people in that area are usually welcoming to new residents."

Anyone with information about the incidents should call beat officer PC Diane Shires on 0845 6060606 or (01274) 376459.

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