A distraught Scots mum has had her car badly damaged by a group of thugs she believes is the 'Corsa Cannibals', who targeted her vehicle in an overnight incident.
Hayley Grady woke up on Friday morning to find the windows in her Vauxhall Corsa had been smashed and the entire front removed.
The car had been parked outside the home the 38-year-old she shares with husband Andrew, also 38, in the Ratho area of Edinburgh.
The couple went to bed around midnight on Thursday, with Andrew discovering the car had been badly damaged when he got up for work at 6.45am.
Mum-of-three Hayley, who works in production for a clothing company, uses the car to take her eldest son who has Crohn’s disease to the hospital.
She slammed the thieves for destroying the car and said she has no way to get to work now.
Hayley said: "We went to bed about midnight, my husband got up this morning to go to work at about 6.45am, the total front end of the car's totally gone.
"None of the neighbours, nobody heard anything. It's making me feel ill they were so close to the houses, it makes me feel unsafe.
"Our eldest son has Crohn's disease, we need the car to get to hospital. It's making us so angry to think somebody could just come and do that, they don't care what impact they have on people's lives.
"I want to let people know because we are a small village, it's really quiet in the evenings. Who's to say they aren't going to come back?"
"They're probably laughing because they know they are getting away with it. I think 100 percent it's Corsa Cannibals.
Chris Petrie, 26, from Loanhead, Midlothian, also had his Corsa dismantled on Thursday night. Transport worker Chris said he woke up to find the front windows smashed and the whole front taken apart.
He said: "They are obviously very quiet as none of my neighbours, or dogs, heard anything and they knew exactly what they were doing.
"I think it's these Corsa Cannibals. Whoever has done it know what they are doing. They dismantled the whole front which is no easy task and it's been done meticulously, all unscrewed as they were left lying on the road."
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Police are investigating the theft of car parts from two vehicles in Ratho, Edinburgh and Loanhead, Midlothian.
"The first incident was reported to police around 7.10 am on Friday, 6 January 2023, and happened in Wilkie View, Ratho, Edinburgh.
"The second incident took place in Park Crescent, Loanhead recently and was reported this morning. Enquiries into both thefts are at a very early stage."
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