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06/12/2011
Reward Of £3K For Rock Car Attack
A reward of £3,000 is being offered for information into the projectile attack on a car in Essex that left a woman seriously injured.
A 57-year-old woman was hurt and a mother and daughter left in shock when concrete blocks hit two cars as they drove along the A12 motorway on December 1.
Mum of two Lisa Horne had been returning from a day’s Christmas shopping at Lakeside with her mum Stella Horne on Thursday, December 1when a large rock smashed through the windscreen of her Vauxhall Astra.
The 26-year-old, who is from Chelmsford, was passing under the Fryerning Lane Bridge near Ingatestone when the rock struck her car just before 9.30pm.
It was the first of two similar incidents on the A12 on the same day. Thirty minutes later, a block of concrete struck a Nissan as it passed under West Hanningfield Road Bridge near Galleywood.
The occupants, a 56-year-old man and his 57-year-old wife from Harold Hill in east London, were injured. The woman suffered multiple rib and facial injuries and is in Broomfield Hospital in a stable condition. Her husband suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Police are treating both incidents as attempted murder and have released images of a rock and a concrete block recovered close to the scenes of the incidents.
Speaking to Essex police, victim of the earlier attack, Lisa, said: “It was as if someone had put their hands over my eyes. I just heard a bang and my windscreen was shattered. I couldn’t work out what had happened.”
Her mum Stella, 48, added: “I remember seeing a shadow come down from the sky and then there was the biggest explosion. At the time I thought it was something off of an aeroplane. It wasn’t until we got out the car that we both realised it had come from the bridge.”
Lisa decided to speak out in the hope it would help police catch those responsible and prevent the same thing happening to anyone else.
She said: “I can’t understand how anybody could do that. They’re obviously not normal, they’re not nice people, they need to be caught.
The reward is being offered by independent charity Crimestoppers. It said the money would be given out for a successful prosecution.
(DW)
A 57-year-old woman was hurt and a mother and daughter left in shock when concrete blocks hit two cars as they drove along the A12 motorway on December 1.
Mum of two Lisa Horne had been returning from a day’s Christmas shopping at Lakeside with her mum Stella Horne on Thursday, December 1when a large rock smashed through the windscreen of her Vauxhall Astra.
The 26-year-old, who is from Chelmsford, was passing under the Fryerning Lane Bridge near Ingatestone when the rock struck her car just before 9.30pm.
It was the first of two similar incidents on the A12 on the same day. Thirty minutes later, a block of concrete struck a Nissan as it passed under West Hanningfield Road Bridge near Galleywood.
The occupants, a 56-year-old man and his 57-year-old wife from Harold Hill in east London, were injured. The woman suffered multiple rib and facial injuries and is in Broomfield Hospital in a stable condition. Her husband suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Police are treating both incidents as attempted murder and have released images of a rock and a concrete block recovered close to the scenes of the incidents.
Speaking to Essex police, victim of the earlier attack, Lisa, said: “It was as if someone had put their hands over my eyes. I just heard a bang and my windscreen was shattered. I couldn’t work out what had happened.”
Her mum Stella, 48, added: “I remember seeing a shadow come down from the sky and then there was the biggest explosion. At the time I thought it was something off of an aeroplane. It wasn’t until we got out the car that we both realised it had come from the bridge.”
Lisa decided to speak out in the hope it would help police catch those responsible and prevent the same thing happening to anyone else.
She said: “I can’t understand how anybody could do that. They’re obviously not normal, they’re not nice people, they need to be caught.
The reward is being offered by independent charity Crimestoppers. It said the money would be given out for a successful prosecution.
(DW)
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