Isolated British island is ‘hell’ at night with ‘feral kids’ and boy racers

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One of the most isolated islands on the planet turns into "hell" on weekend nights with "drunkenness", "feral" kids and boy racers reportedly causing chaos.

The volcanic island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, lies in the South Atlantic Ocean nearly 2,000km from Africa and nearly 3,000km from South America.

Ascension Island, another remote British territory, is the closest inhabited landmass to St Helena some 1,300km away.

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It has its own version of the pound, a UK postcode (STHL 1ZZ) and a population of 4,439 (as of 2021).

Jamestown, the island's capital, is where most of the residents live. And although we may think of St Helena as a tropical paradise a world away from dreary British cities and the alcohol-fuelled chaos that occurs here every weekend, it turns out the island shares some of the same problems.

Earlier this month the St Helena Government released a statement condemning "anti-social behaviour", "drunkenness" and "criminal activity leading to the needless damage" in the lower half of Jamestown.

It went on to say it was a "minority of people harming their own community", adding that the St Helena Government is working with the UK Representative's Office in London to get financial support to bring in solutions such as CCTV.

"Civilian security patrols" have also been set up.

Following the statement, an editorial appeared in the St Helena Independent – one of the island's two newspapers – going into more detail about the anti-social behaviour.

The paper's editor Vince Thompson wrote: "Having spent the night in Jamestown on one or two occasions I am very aware weekend nights are perfect hell every weekend."

He recalled one Sunday morning when, in the early hours, "a succession of cars would drive up to the ramps, slow down, pass over the ramps and then accelerate using the highest possible revs immediately afterwards".

"Throwing litter" and "breaking bottles" were said to be other issues. Vince went on to describe some of Jamestown's unruly youths as "feral".

He wrote: "I’ve just looked up the definition of 'feral', it states 'in a wild state after escape from domestication'. That sounds about right."

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