A brick was hurled through a family's window in the middle of the night - narrowly missing hitting a newborn baby. Amy Hicken and her partner were both woken up by a huge bang in the early hours of the morning when the brick smashed through their window and landed on their bed.
Fortunately, Amy's partner was not injured when the brick landed on his leg, scattering glass all over their room. The young mum said it was lucky her four-week-old baby and her two-year-old, who were also in the room at their home in Wortley, Leeds, were not covered in shards of glass.
Sharing the scary incident with LeedsLive, Amy said she was dozing while doing the night feed when the brick came in the window and smashed through the blinds and the curtains. She immediately called her mum in shock and then 999, with the police coming out straight away.
West Yorkshire Police are investigating what happened, but Amy took to Facebook to ask her neighbours to check any CCTV or doorbell cameras to help find the culprit. Explaining what happened, Amy said: "We were sleeping, just as usual, and there was a big bang and it woke me up straight away. We moved and we could just hear loads of glass on the bed.
“Luckily my four-week-old was on my side, because I was doing the night feed, but she would have been covered in glass. We turned around and saw the big brick on the bed, it was thrown with some force, it came through the windows, blinds and curtains.
“I was in shock, and I rang my mum, we called 999, the police came straight out, told my partner not to touch anything, police came and took pictures, but said they couldn’t get fingerprints off a brick."
Amy, who lives near Swallow Crescent and Silver Royd Hill says in the two years she and her family have lived on the estate, nothing like this has happened before. She said: “Funnily enough, we were saying the other day, that we never get any trouble on that street and we like living there, and then this happened. Once it happened, I looked on Facebook and I saw that someone’s car window was put through near the Aldi which isn't far from me."
Amy asked the Facebook group Leedsplace for help with CCTV footage, hoping to catch the person who did it. West Yorkshire Police confirmed it is investigating what happened.
Amy posted: “Early hours of this morning at approx 3.48am someone threw a brick through my bedroom window, where my four-week-old and two- year-old were sleeping.
“Was just wondering if anyone on Swallow Crescent/Silver Royd Hill had any CCTV that could have maybe caught something!"
