Mum's horror as thief shoves son, 10, aside to steal her car as it defrosted outside her home

A mum has shared her shock after her 10-year old-son was pushed aside during a bold car theft. Kasia Wasilewska, 34, had briefly gone back into her house to get an ice scraper when the scary event happened.

She had left the engine running to defrost her car before taking her son Fabian to church. But what happened next has left both mum and son shaken up and eager to warn others about the risks of leaving a car engine running in frosty weather.

Kasia, 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.

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"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."

StokeonTrentLive reports that the car was driven off and Kasia called the police straightaway. An attempt was made to use her bank card at a Greggs at a petrol station nearby about 40 minutes later.

"We were getting ready to go to church to do preparation for my son's Holy Communion and we were going to go out for tea and cake afterwards. We couldn't go as we had to wait for police to speak to us." she added. A 49-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent has since