Hellhole Island

Residents living on a ‘ghost town’ island claim gangs of youths ‘control’ the streets because they ‘never see police officers’.

The angry residents of Sheerness, Kent’s Isle of Sheppey, who “feel abandoned” by the authorities, have called the town “the town that time forgot.”

People are leaving the island in the Thames Estuary in search of safer places elsewhere, and families claim they are afraid to send their children to school.

Upon visiting the port town, which has 21,139 residents, MailOnline found that it is in the top 20 most dangerous towns in England and the second most dangerous small town in Kent.

Locals claim that flytipping, crime, theft, drug abuse, and a “total lack of community spirit” have sent the neighbourhood into “abject desperation.”

One woman said, ‘It is a hellhole island. There’s parts of here I would not be paid a million pounds to visit. It is terrible.’

With 181 crimes per 1,000 residents, Sheerness has a higher crime rate than Kent’s average of 88. Most of the problems had to do with narcotics, criminal damage, and antisocial behaviour.

In addition to being the largest town on the Isle of Sheppey, it is well-known for housing three prisons, the most secure of which is HMP Swaleside.

There was the horrific murder of 18-year-old Christopher Alaneme in 2006, following his pursuit by a group of five vacationing white men.

It was even nicknamed “hellhole island” by one YouTuber.

One man on Tiktok said: ‘Most people think the Isle of Sheppey is a prison colony, but it’s far worse than that.’

He also said in a video that it was ‘probably the most dangerous place in the whole of the southeast’.

Margaret Jackson, 67, who lives in Sheerness, told MailOnline: ‘It is a hellhole island. There’s parts of here I would not be paid a million pounds to visit. It is terrible.

‘It’s got so much worse in the last few years.

‘There is a lot of violence and anti-social behaviour. The youths run riot. They control some of the estates, and people won’t go near them.

‘The high street is a ghost town, like the town that time forgot.

‘They just bring the dregs of society to live here. Not many local people live here anymore.

‘They have all come in from outside.

‘Some of them are the roughest of the rough and cause nothing but misery to the rest of the town and the island in general. They are appalling.’

The third person to be sent to prison in 2022 was James McCreadie of Linden Road, Sheerness. He was a member of a gang of robbers who frequently preyed on residents of the town.

There’s no such thing as bad areas, just bad people.

Sheerness has always been a bit of a tip. The best thing that could happen is that the authorities evacuate it and leave it as a prison camp. The island is not fit for purpose.

Regretfully, a dearth of resources and financing can degrade a community by encouraging drug use and criminal activity, but then this is Rishi Sunak’s Britain.

Proper policing should be in every area of England, but the trouble is that our police now have no time for physical problems unless someone types an offensive comment that makes someone else cry.

But it’s not just the Isle of Sheppey that has gone bad—the entire United Kingdom has become toxic, and we’re now past the point of no return.

Society is slowly breaking down. The police have lost control, and gangs are taking over. Unfortunately, everywhere will be the same; it’s just a matter of time. I feel sorry for our younger generation of children.