A FRIGHTENED pensioner was chased by drunks after she told them not to drink at a beauty spot.

Hazel Bellingham was jogging through West Cliff Green in Bournemouth when she told three young men that they were not allowed to drink there.

But one of them got up and chased her towards the beach.

“It was frightening for me and I didn’t know what he was going to do,” she said.

“I spotted the vodka and said ‘there’s no alcohol allowed up here’ and that’s when he got up and was running after me.”

The 68-year-old was relieved that the man’s friend called him back and she ran down towards the beach.

But her ordeal was not over as the same man who chased her confronted her again when she came up to the green taking a different way to get home.

“One of them was urinating on the path and you could see what he was doing,” she said.

“Then they walked on and saw me again and approached me.

“It’s when they came after me at this point that worried me most.

“They said ‘you didn’t call the police then?’ and I said ‘no, but I’m going to now’.

“He was very aggressive.”

Mrs Bellingham said the men were aged in their 20s with the one who spoke to her speaking in English with a foreign accent.

Her husband was at home and said he heard the men shouting so he rang 999 before he realised his wife was involved.

Roger, 69, said the shouting was “horrendous” and sounded like a fight.

He said: “The urinating on the path and shouting and being abusive is totally unacceptable.

“We don’t want drink and drug problems on the green.”

Mr Bellingham praised the “quick” police response to his call.

Chris Colledge, chairman of the West Cliff Green Residents’ Association, said a portable CCTV unit could help stop groups of drinkers from meeting there.

“This is an issue that needs to be dealt with by the police and the council,” he said.

“People feel frightened to go past that point when these groups are there and with nothing being done it’s not fair on people who want to enjoy the West Cliff.”

A Dorset Police spokesman said officers went to the green after the 999 call came in at 9.39am on Saturday but were unable to trace the three men.

“They did a thorough search of the area,” she said.

Anyone with information can call Dorset police on 101.