Thief shoved schoolboy out of way to nick mum’s car before heading to Greggs

A mum has told of her horror after her 10-year-old son was pushed aside by a thief who made off with her car before razzing off to Greggs.

Kasia Wasilewska, 34, had only briefly returned to the house to grab an ice scraper while defrosting her Nissan Juke when the frightening event took place. She told StokeonTrentLive that she was preparing her car to take her son, Fabian to church around 10.35am on Sunday (December 3) and had left Fabian holding the car keys.

But out of nowhere, a bloke snatched the keys off him before shoving him out of the way. The cheeky crook then sped off and headed to Greggs when he realised Kasia's bank card was inside the vehicle.

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The 34-year-old, who works for a debt collection agency said: "What has happened to us is horrible. It's such a shock. Fabian was pushed out of the way. He was in shock because he didn't know what was going on.

"Thankfully he wasn't hurt but he's still thinking this was his fault when I explained there is nothing he could have done. I'd been taking snow off the windscreen and went back in the house to get something to clear the front windscreen.

"When I came back outside I said: 'what's going on?' and at first I thought the car had skidded along the road because of the ice.

"My son said a man had told him to get out of the way, taken the keys out of his hand, pushed him out of the way and then jumped into the car.

"The car was driven off and I called the police straight away. An attempt was made to use my bank card at a Greggs at a petrol station on Longton Hall Road in Blurton about 40 minutes later."

But quick-thinking Kasia had already alerted her bank and the card was declined.

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Now she is warning others about the risks of defrosting cars with the engine running adding: "I believe there have been a few incidents of cars being stolen when someone was defrosting them. I just want to make people aware of this so it doesn't happen to them."

A 49-year-old bloke from Stoke-on-Trent has since been nabbed by the police on suspicion of taking the car without permission.

A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: "We started work straight away to track the car. It was found near Northcote Street on Monday (December 4). A 49-year-old man, from Stoke-on-Trent, has been arrested on suspicion of taking a car without the owner's consent."

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