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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Dads protected children as masked man attacked shop

A dad caught up in a terrifying vandal attack on a family-run business said his two young sons "could have been killed" after a large brick was hurled past their heads.

Roy Thomas was having his hair cut at Top Crops on Gilroy Road, West Kirby, with his sons Tyler, nine, and Albie, four, at around 3pm on Saturday when a black masked vandal ran up to the shop and smashed its windows with a brick.

He said: "At first we thought it was either a car backfiring, someone had had a crash, or someone had dropped something in the shop. It was just one big boom.

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