A family are being terrorised by thugs who shot at a caravan used as a child's playroom outside their home.

The two gun shots were the latest in a series of incidents against the Harris family, of Bernwood Road, Barton, Oxford.

They say they have been threatened with death, had their car shot at with an air rifle and had their pets attacked.

Susan Harris, 43, has resigned as a governor at Barton Village First School, and her husband Geoffrye, 48, quit the local residents' housing committee following the intimidation.

So far the couple and their eight-year-old daughter Charlotte have not been physically harmed.

Mr Harris said: "Because my wife and I are on several committees in the area there is a lot of animosity.

"People think we are grassing them up.

"We have had lots of problems, the latest being a gun shot fired through the caravan window."

The caravan was parked in the family's front driveway when it was attacked. It is not clear if the broken window was caused by a bullet or an airgun pellet.

Mr Harris, an advocate for a mental health centre in Paradise Street, Oxford, said: "My daughter uses it to play in.

"At the time, she was being brought back from school - but when she gets home she sets it up as her own little house."

It is not known who carried out the various attacks or if they are linked.

Mr Harris added: "They have not only shot at my caravan. I have had a pellet shot into the wheel of the car and our cats have had their teeth kicked in.

"Earlier this year, I went into the garden and the fish had been pulled out of the pond and laid on the grass."

Mr Harris said both he and his wife had been threatened with violence.

"We are prisoners in our own house," he said.

The family, who have lived in their council-owned home for five years, are looking to move.

A Thames Valley Police spokesman said they had received Mr Harris's complaints and were looking into them.

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