Furniture and children's toys thrown through smashed window at Buckland house

Officers in three police cars and a police van attended the scene at 9.13am after reports of a disturbance in Hampshire Street, Buckland.

A property had a ground-floor front window smashed, with red spatters on a sofa and walls visible from the street.

Neighbours report hearing banging – followed by a man shouting – at 8am, before the disturbance led to the smashed window and household items being thrown into the street.

A man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and possession of cannabis.

Next door neighbour Melissa Rivollier, a 21-year-old applied languages student at the University of Portsmouth, said: ‘We heard banging and shouting in the early hours of the morning.

‘We heard shouting, and what sounded like plates being thrown about.

‘It sounded like a man’s voice – we couldn’t hear anything else.

‘We heard what sounded like him punching a wall.

‘He continued to shout and throw stuff into the street – it looked like it was plates being thrown.

‘We were in the bedroom – and we were a little bit afraid.’

Another resident, who asked not to be named, said she heard the window smash and the sound of objects being broken apart.

The resident, who has lived on the street for more than 24 years, said: ‘I saw stuff being thrown into the street – furniture and kid’s toys and bits and pieces. It was terrible.’

Next door neighbour Abdul Wadud, who has lived on the road for more than 20 years, was woken by ‘loud banging’ from the incident.

He said: ‘I was asleep and I woke up and heard lots of banging. It sounded like someone trying to get in.’

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The 41-year-old was later woken by police as his car had been splattered by what he was told was blood.

He said: ‘There’s not a lot, but I’ve had to wash some blood off my car.’

A spokeswoman from Hampshire Constabulary said: ‘On attendance we located a man inside an address on Hampshire Street who had caused damage to the property.’