"My little girl had just gone to bed on Christmas Eve... then I heard screaming"

A single mum has told of the terrifying moment she heard her daughter 'screaming' as a group of masked men began smashing up her Range Rover in the early hours of Christmas Day.

Stevie Greenough, 34, had put her ten-year-old daughter to bed in her new Christmas pyjamas and was building her a dressing table with her eldest, aged 17, when the festive evening descended into horror.

After going upstairs to use the bathroom, Stevie, who was making the final preparations for Christmas Day, heard her teenage daughter 'screaming' repeatedly before hearing 'loud smashing' noises coming from outside.

The group of four masked men, dressed in black, began attacking her Range Rover, parked outside her Clarke Street home in Leigh, and smashing in the windows and the sunroof before running towards the door and beating it with a weapon.

She claims the suspects then fled the scene in a car and the police were called. Over a month later, investigations into the attack, which she believes to be 'targeted', is continuing. A man was arrested but later bailed.

"I went upstairs and the next thing, I heard my car alarm going off and my daughter screaming," Stevie told the Manchester Evening News.

"There was all this shouting and screaming and then I heard loud smashing noises. I thought, what the hell is going on? I ran to the front door and saw my daughter's boyfriend drag her inside and slam it shut.

"My daughter had ran out the door and one of the masked men chased her up the path. If her boyfriend hadn’t of pulled her in she would have been seriously injured.

"They knew what they were doing. They all had balaclavas on and their faces covered. They had two batons and have gone for the sunroof, which is the most expensive part to fix."

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