My name is Andrew and I'm 14 years old. I've been getting bullied. It started off orally, being called names because I used to hang around with a group of people who always used to call this certain group and I was with them at this time. They had been doing things to the house like nicking our milk and throwing eggs at the windows and one morning I was walking to school on my own and this boy just started pushing me and hitting me. People were walking past as this was going on and they didn't do anything, they weren't bothered at all. He was hitting my back and I couldn't do games for a couple of weeks, my coccyx was all bruised in my lower back.

This person who has been bullying me has bullied loads of people, the Police have been round because where I live in Ashton-in-Makerfield, his name is well known down there because he has caused a lot of damage to people's lives because he is quite a big bully around Ashton and there's nothing really we can do to stop him doing it again. The Police can't really do anything unless they see him doing it and we can't get a court action against him, or anything. This has been going on for ages, since the beginning of the Summer Holidays. He usually picks on people younger than himself, he's 15 or 16 and in the Fifth Year now.

People were just walking past when I was on the ground with my hands over my face and he was just kicking me, but I was blocking my face because that is what he was going for and finally, this old man came out of his car and tried to pull him off me. It was really scary because I've never really been in that situation before, but my Dad and Mum were telling me that this is growing up., everyone goes through this at some time in their life and they said it was like a part of growing up.

I don't know why people bully. Myself, I just want to get on with everyone, be friends with everyone but other people they don't want to. I want everyone to like me. The teachers, some of them, weren't really interested. When I came into school after I had been attacked one of the teachers said just go to your lesson, although I couldn't sit down at all, so I had to get a cushion from one of the technology rooms because my back was so sore and it was all bruised. Also, I had to ask my mum to tell the school to do something because they feel it isn't really part of their job, which I think it is, if there is something stopping me from coming to school. I was almost half an hour late. They said there was nothing they could do because it was outside of School bounds, but also there is a teacher who lives next door but one to me, and she teaches me for Geography, well this boy has hit her son as well and the Police have been going to our house, and almost every other house, asking what this boy has done. He has hit children, he has even hit girls when he was drunk, because he drinks as well, and his Dad has been in trouble with the Police, and his neighbours have said they never open the front door, everyone has to go round the back, I don't know why. They are all afraid.

Now, I feel a bit safer. Although it happened about two weeks ago, I am really frightened, when the phone rings I worry in case it might be him. I know this sounds really silly, how can he get my number, but I think it might be him and I have to look out of my window now to see who's at the door. I don't go out anymore now because I'm frightened of him being there.