missd I'm not sure if they have looked at it this way. She hadn't come home from work when it happened. I think part of the problem is that when they finish school they are at home on their own until she gets home, so the flat becomes a bit of a youth club (at least that's how she has made it sound to me). I think generally it's all innocent, but of course as more and more youths start to come around there will inevitably one or two dogy ones turn up, which is what has happened. As far as talking to his parents is concerned, like I say, I don't know where he lives and neither do my sons. He seems to be a character who drifts into their neighbourhood. They live on a council estate so sometimes you get drifters hanging around. I'm just around the corner and on the end of the phone, luckily, and boys are with me every weekend so I try to keep a watchful eye over who they hang around with and where they go.