A father has told how he bravely confronted a knife-wielding gang who were trying to steal his car.

The dad ran up to two men who had smashed into his Ford S Max, in Sheldon and managed to push one away.

Another attacker threatened him and his neighbours with a knife before they fled empty handed.

The smashed up car

The 29-year-old victim, who does not want to be named, is now worried for his family in case they return.

He said: “It’s a car at the end of the day, if anything happened to my family, I  would be very worried.”

The dad-of-two was alerted by neighbours’ screams between 10.30pm and 11pm on Tuesday (August 25).

He said: “I heard my name being shouted and I ran through my house and went through the front and there was a white van and two men stood at the driver’s door with both their heads peering inside the car.

“I ran straight at them and that scared them off a bit.

“They turned away and I pushed one off to the side.

“The other one jumped into the van and then jumped out of the van with a large knife in his hand and chased me back towards my house.”

The knifeman threatened the dad to stay away and also threatened the neighbours who locked themselves in their porch.

He added: “There was three of them. There was a lot of presence around so they jumped into the van and drove off. My neighbours all came out to see if I was OK.



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“The police came quickly and did say they were in a chase with a white van.”

The attackers left the car but had smashed the windows, leaving shattered glass on the ground.

West Midlands Police said enquiries are continuing and anyone with information should contact them quoting 20BE/203675W/20.