I WAS saddened to see that 21 police had to be called out to cope with 200 drunken teenagers, who had gate crashed a Hartford party, Guardian, October 22.

Those parents have already learned their lesson that you don’t leave teenagers alone in a house at a party with alcohol, no matter how much they plead that things will be ok.

In the days before Facebook, a local family left their teenage sons to run a party with booze. One son got so drunk that he hit and injured somebody with a piece of furniture.

At the time I was a Vale Royal Magistrate, and was very sad to have to send him to youth custody, and effectively end a good apprenticeship.

Young people with too much alcohol can easily go wrong. Parents may be unpopular, but they need keep a discrete eye on their teenagers’ parties.

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