A community is under threat. Drug crime, petty theft, assault and abuse; the actions of the criminal underbelly go unchecked - and the criminals themselves slip through loopholes in the law, escape punishment and continue to terrorise the weak and the vulnerable.

But dissent is stirring. If the police cannot or will not act, who will do so?

The judicial system may be a blunt instrument, but the force for retribution that is emerging in this Sussex community is a fine blade: fired by frustration, wielded in secrecy, and cutting to the quick. But does absolute power corrupt? On the trail of...