Mum horrified to see news footage of a gang using her car to ‘ramraid a bank’

MUM Victoria Hurd checked the local news on her phone — and was horrified to see footage of a gang using the family car to ramraid a bank. Her partner Steve Carstairs’ £26,000 Seat Leon Cupra R had been stolen from their drive by masked raiders days earlier. Police were still hunting for it when […]

MUM Victoria Hurd checked the local news on her phone — and was horrified to see footage of a gang using the family car to ramraid a bank.

Her partner Steve Carstairs’ £26,000 Seat Leon Cupra R had been stolen from their drive by masked raiders days earlier.

Police were still hunting for it when Victoria opened a local news feed video on her mobile to see the car being reversed at speed through a plate glass window at Santander bank.

Witnesses had filmed the raid as robbers with crowbars and baseball bats loaded bags of cash into the black Seat before speeding off. Mum-of-three Victoria said: “Three masked men had broken in to our house to steal the keys and take the car off the drive.

“It was terrifying. Then a few days later I was scrolling down a local news feed and there was our car sticking out of a bank’s smashed window surrounded by masked men.

“I was flabbergasted. I just shouted, ‘That’s our car!’ As word spread people were contacting us to say they had seen the car being driven around Leicester at crazy speeds.”

The gang is thought to have used the Seat in several other crimes before abandoning it following a high-speed police chase.

Victoria added: “We were expecting the car to end up torched but we got a call from the police over the weekend to say it had been found abandoned. Steve’s relieved that the damage to the back where they rammed it into the bank isn’t too bad.

“He’s happy because he loves that car. “But I’m not sure how I feel about the kids being taken on day trips in a bank robbery getaway car.”

A worker at a store near the raided bank in Oadby, Leics, was among several witnesses who videoed the robbery.

He said: “It was fairly scary. There were women inside the bank screaming.

“The raiders had crowbars and were shouting ‘Stop filming!’ at me and ­others who had their phones out.

“I’ve handed the footage over to the police.”

Police on Monday said two men aged 21 and 25 had been arrested in connection with the bank raid.

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