FAMILY TELL OF HORROR MOMENT THEY CAME FACE-TO-FACE WITH MAN WHO LANDED ON CAR

VICTIMS and witnesses told of how the shocking events played out in Ancoats yesterday morning.

Ben Sheridan, 28, was a passenger in his family car with his mum, Lynn, and dad, Peter, when a man dropped onto the Hyundai’s windscreen from above.

The family, from Radcliffe, had just parked up along Cross Keys Street and were preparing to go to work when they felt a huge bang on the roof.

Realising a man had fallen from the window above, they jumped out to help him. But Ben says the man started to attack them.

The web developer, 28, said: “He was hitting my mum in the face, my dad was trying to get him off. We are all in shock.”

Dad Peter added: “It’s the first time I’ve ever had to fight. My wife has a huge lump on her face. We are all very shaken up.”

Ben says the man then ran down the street, smashing the window of another car with his hands and ‘assaulting people.’

Another woman described the terrifying moment the rampaging man dragged her from her BMW on a busy main road.

The 34-year-old, who asked not to be named, was in her car on her way to Salford Royal Hospital when a man smashed her rear window before trying to drag her from the car.

She was too shaken to speak about the attack but her brother told the M.E.N: “He tried to drag her from the car, she was screaming and trying to stop him. He was smearing blood everywhere.”

He added: “She is OK – just very traumatised.”

One builder who was working nearby at the time of the incident said he heard a lot of loud noises.

“I was unloading the van and heard a load of shouting, swearing and smashing. It was loud,” he said.

Forensics officers could be seen entering the Shush Apartments building throughout the day as they scoured the scene for evidence.

Carmen Contreras is the landlady of the Fringe Bar, on Swan Street. She said police were at the back of the building putting a cordon in place when she tried to go out yesterday morning. “I got up to go to school and we let ourselves out the front. Normally I would come out the back but the police were taping off the road here,” she said. “I asked what had happened and he just said ‘there’s been an incident.’ I didn’t see or hear anything before that. At that point we didn’t know they had found a body. “If it had happened an hour later it would have been when I was taking my daughter to school.” Dramatic video footage shows the moment a man was pinned to the floor by police with the help of a courageous member of the public. Around 10 officers had to wrestle the ‘violent’ man to the ground as they tried to arrest him during shocking scenes which unfolded on Oldham Road. One witness said the man’s legs were strapped together to stop him kicking police as he was detained and placed in the back of an ambulance. “I saw an ambulance and a load of police,” they said. “There was a car in the middle of the road. I thought someone had been hit by a car at first, but then I realised it was an unmarked police car. Then I saw about 10 police on the floor struggling with him. “He was fighting back, kicking and flailing. The police had to strap his legs

He tried to drag her from the car, she was screaming and trying to stop him Victim’s brother