DISTURBING images showing youths from Sedbury posing with guns and knives have been posted on an internet website.

Chepstow Police have reprimanded two youths seen on the site and liased with Gloucestershire police for their counterparts, after further investigations found the guns to be replicas.

A group known as the 'Sedbury Boiz' have posted various pictures on the secure Bebo chatroom site and it is believed they are linked to various graffiti tags across Chepstow, with 'Big Up The Sedbury Boiz' seen on the underpass in the town centre.

Inspector Jim Walker from Chepstow Police said: "We have become aware of an internet site involving a group of Sedbury youths.

"Concerns were raised about certain disturbing images, which show them posing with guns. After speaking to the youths seen in the pictures it was confirmed that they were BB guns.

"We have spoken to their parents and made them aware that these images are not acceptable."

One website of a Boiz' member has the following information: "i iz a raver who loves to party and get f****d on da weekends, lives in sedbury, the shire!

His friends are then listed as: "all da bois from sedbury, and som propper sound ladzs and lacies from: lydney, cheppo, magor, newport, beachley, bream, woodcroft, st brivals, tutshill."

He reports he is happiest when: "partying, stayin out all nite wid som lads and lacies (tescos at 4 in da mornin for a phat munch!) A female friend of his also has a website which says: "i liVE in ChEpstOW wHIcH is FUlL oF WanaBee f*****G GaNSTAS. I gO OuT DOwN TOwN moSt SAT an Fri nITes 2 LIqUID, greek!, AnD The pUBS As IM a TEenAge AlciHOLic!"

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