'Everything has been taken away and it's not a quick fix. It has a knock-on effect on the town centre'
Standing behind a sea of cardboard boxes, Umair Hussain looks out across the sun-drenched market square. For the past 15 years, this is where he has made his living, flogging everything from puzzle books to socks and toilet roll.
Following the incident, police issued a dispersal order while patrols were stepped up around the market. GMP's Chief Constable, Stephen Watson, has since called on the force's neighbourhood team in Tameside to make sure it can 'nip in the bud' any problems plaguing Hyde town centre. “The council should see what is going on and try to help but they don’t," he said. "We get no protection."When I started, it was a really nice market. You never saw bad behaviour.
“I have regular customers who don’t come anymore," Mr Hussain explained. “It puts people off coming to the market.”“If you ring them and somebody turned up, that would make a big difference," he explained.Another stallholder, who asked not to be named, said traders were being "terrorised" on a daily basis.“They come on bikes and do wheelies and sit on the stalls and smoke weed openly. They’re terrorising everybody.“The older generation are not going to come.
It's not just market traders who have had enough. Waqas Ali opened ioi Gadgets in Clarendon Street, opposite the market, earlier this year. Stallholder Beryl Clark witnessed last week's incident and said the same group had been targeting the market for several weeks."You don't see your community policeman anymore. We would never have dared to have misbehaved 50 years ago.
He said: "It's easy to point the finger and say there are so many youths in Hyde but what are they going to do? People say you're a criminal, you're no good, but there's no support anymore.
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