A former councillor’s home was trashed after more than 800 teenagers turned up to a party her 14-year-old daughter advertised on Facebook.
Obscene graffiti was daubed on the walls of rooms, computers were smashed, furniture was destroyed and doors were ripped off their hinges during the rampage at church leader Esther Hine’s three-bedroom terrace home in Billericay, Essex, on Friday night.
Several neighbours called the police at 6.30pm, when drunk teenagers from as far afield as Hackney were filling the house and garden.
One report said Mrs Hine had been warned two weeks ago that her full address had been posted on Facebook and Twitter by her daughter Sarah, but that she failed to stop the party from going ahead.
Sarah, a pupil at the Anglo European School in Ingatestone, Essex, initially invited 30 friends to the celebration of her 15th birthday. But the event was picked up by hundreds of others and became known on Twitter as “ProjectX of Essex” after the film ProjectX in which a teenager’s house is wrecked after a party is advertised on social media.
One neighbour, who did not wish to be named. said: “Some of the residents were threatened and when the police came there were people running everywhere trying to escape.
“Even after the police came there were messages on Twitter saying everyone should come back to the party. It was just mad.”
Essex Police said the area was cleared and no arrests were made.
Mrs Hine and her husband could not be contacted for comment.
