A MOTHER has told how an angry pedestrian threw a brick ‘the size of a melon’ through her car window at her as she sat with her young son after a row about parking.

De Este Crawford said the shocking incident happened yards from a police station while she was waiting to collect her 12-year-old son from Air Cadets in Consett.

Ms Crawford, 32, admits she parked her Nissan Note on double yellow lines, opposite the squadron hall on Parliament Street, but said the attack on her car left her injured and put her two-year-old son George’s life in danger.

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Ms Crawford said: “It is not the best place to park so I stuck my car up on the kerb but left enough room for a pushchair or wheelchair to get past.

“This man and woman walked past and the man was going on about people parking on the kerb.

“He put his face next to my window, which was down, and started shouting abuse at me, effing and blinding and calling me names.

“My little boy was in the back so he was well aware there was a child in the car.

“The woman ushered him off. I laughed it off and thought no more of it.”

Ms Crawford said moments later the man returned with a lump of concrete the size of Galia melon and smashed it through her driver’s side window.

She said: “It hit me in the chest and has left me with big bruise.

“There was glass everywhere, all over me, all over the back of the car and all over the baby.

“My legs were shredded to bits because I had shorts on.

“I was not sure if he was going to come for me so I got the little one and ran into the cadets’ building.”

Ms Crawford, of Greencroft, Stanley, said the police were called and arrived within minutes but the man had left the scene.

The incident happened at 9pm on Friday and Ms Crawford said the man was of stocky build, with a bald or shaved head, wearing a dark jacket.

The woman he was with had short blond hair and was wearing a blouse.

Durham Constabulary has been contacted for comment.

Ms Crawford added: “I have been crying and I am emotional about everything. If it went through the back window and it would have hit my baby.

"I am still quite shook up about it.”

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