"It sounded like gunshots and my children were screaming... I looked up and the window had completely gone"

A dad has told of the horrific moment a pair of thugs smashed up his car and windows while his two young children were inside after 'targeting' his house.

Aarron Grundy, 27, was at his home on Devonshire Road in Atherton with his two sons, aged five and 12 months, when the two individuals suddenly charged towards the property and began smashing his car and windows with golf clubs on Sunday (January 19).

Horrific CCTV images showed the moment the two individuals, wearing coats and hats, began bashing holes into his car windscreen and passenger window, before also putting through his living room window and quickly fleeing the scene at around 12pm.

Just moments before, the dad-of-two had sat his youngest baby son in his high chair in the living room and began making his older child some food when he heard 'what sounded like gunshots'.

"I went in the kitchen and all of a sudden, I heard what sounded like gunshot noises," he told the M.E.N. "Then I heard this massive shatter. I ran into the living room, and my eldest was hysterical.

"I looked up and the front window had completely gone. I was trying to duck to get my 12-month-old, who was sat in his high chair, right in front of the window they had just smashed.

"At the time, what was going through my head was the worry that one of my children would be shot."

A man driving past heard the commotion and saw the two suspects running away from the scene and turned around before coming to Aarron's aid. It is thought the two males then ran down nearby Kent Road and jumped in a car, thought to be a black Vauxhall Astra.

Aarron, whose eldest son has been left 'completely traumatised' by the incident, then called 999. His window was boarded up by the council that same day.

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