Coventry Telegraph

Keresley blasted as dangerous place to live in scathing online rants

- By LAURA HARTLEY News reporter laura.hartley@trinitymir­ror.com

THE people of the World Wide Web are posing one question to the residents of Keresley - What went wrong?

Online keyboard warriors have blasted the area on the edge of Bedworth as a “modern day death camp to even the most resilient of people”.

In the scathing review submitted online by an anonymous writer on the website ilivehere.co.uk, it is claimed the people of Keresley live in “constant fear of being stabbed, shot or robbed while they sleep”.

The keyboard warriors haven’t stopped there. They have gone all out on the website which allows people to give their honest opinions on towns and cities across the country.

But what do they say is wrong with Keresley?

Lack of shops

“The lack of shops is daunting. When you do find a shop it’s few and far between but what is certain is that you will find a young gang of reprobates waiting for the shop owner to deal the dope.”

The people of Keresley are ‘cunning and Machiavell­ian’

“Can all of the Keresley population be this cunning and Machiavell­ian? Well, then you get onto the new estate: the Meadows. When living here you are seen as aristocrac­y regardless of the fact they are normal, average houses.

“They’re some decent people living there but then you get the snobby people.”

They sponge off their kids

“All the people that don’t live on the benefits of hard working people, like the Bedworth population, sponge off their kids and rely on them to bring in the income to waste it on weed or any other drug that kills them faster then the morons that drive about like boy racers or ride on their little bikes thinking they’re ‘phat.’ “To the working people of Keresley (an enigma what they’d do for a job) they live in constant fear of being stabbed, shot or robbed while they sleep as the village co-ordinates like a flock of birds that are waiting for a honest hard working person to drop some crumbs off their Greggs sausage roll, but in Keresley’s case; waiting for the working man to become weak – taking his money and spending it on weed. “You’d be lucky if they didn’t slit your throat while you sleep!”

Crime levels are frightenin­g

“The crime here is frightenin­g, living here is a punishment. I’d rather live on the streets as you’d be considered normal considerin­g the amount of homeless people here. Every turn you make there is a burned car, I’m not joking. “The top dogs of the village call themselves the “Keresley Massive” like really? What is that supposed to mean?”

Stay away

“This place needs to catch up with Bedworth and fast if it wants to get a good reputation but with the state at the minute, I’d say the devil himself would be disgusted by the impoverish­ed condition of Keresley!”

The crime here is frightenin­g, living here is like a punishment. I’d rather live on the streets

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