A younger mum asleep along with her toddler at house was left terrified after a drunken stranger battered on her door and smashed her front room window whereas demanding for a taxi.
Ashlie Todd was in her mattress on Hawthorn Street in Girvan, Ayrshire, when the ordeal started to unfold within the early hours of Sunday morning.
The 27-year-old, whose two-year-old tot Elizabeth was additionally asleep was startled by pounding on her door at 2am.
Ashlie stated she was shocked when she noticed a person with a bloodied mouth from her window.
Talking to the Every day Report, she stated: "I noticed a person chapping my door once I seemed out of the window.
"He requested me to telephone him a taxi and I stated 'I can’t' and that I had a wee one in mattress and he was going to wake her up."
The thug turned aggressive when his calls for weren't met, and subjected Ashlie to a torrent of abuse.
The mum-of-one who Ashlie believes was drunk, then tried to launch her daughter's scooter on the bed room window.
Ashlie begged him to depart after making two frightened calls to police.
The younger mum's boyfriend, who had additionally been sleeping, confronted the person at their door earlier than returning inside.
Ashlie continued: "He ripped out the picket edging in my backyard and smashed it by way of my front room window. There was glass was all the best way as much as the again of my front room.
"It was so scary, I phoned the police for the third time and I used to be hysterical at this level. The police stated they had been on the best way.
"My boyfriend ran out to catch him however he had finished a runner."
The household house has been left with a boarded-up window within the wake of the incident.
Ashlie, who suffers from nervousness, has been left badly shaken by what's occurred.
She stated: "This has made my nervousness worse.
"I by no means left the home on Sunday, aside from bringing my wee one spherical to my mum’s.
"I’ve been doing nicely with my nervousness and this has introduced all of it again."
It is understood the person had additionally tried knocking on neighbour's doorways earlier than making an attempt Ashlie's home.
The younger mum says she'll wrestle to really feel protected till cops have caught the person accountable.
She is urging anybody who could have info, or house safety footage, that might assist determine him to return ahead.
Cops have confirmed they had been unable to hint the individual accountable and say enquiries are ongoing.
A Police Scotland spokesperson stated: “Round 2.35am on Sunday, 6 March, officers had been referred to as to Hawthorn Street, Girvan following a vandalism.
"Officers attended and searched the world with no hint and police enquiries are ongoing.”
Anybody with info can name 101 with reference 0590 of March 6.
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