Hunt after thugs beat driver and steal car

ROBBERS assaulted a man and stole his car in a ‘terrifying ordeal’ which was the latest in a series of unusual vehicle robberies in the Glasgow area.

The man was returning in a business park car park on the outskirts of Glasgow on Friday evening when two men approached him and demanded his car keys. When he refused, they produced weapons and struck him on the leg before stealing his silver Skoda.

The incident happened at around 5.40pm in Buchanan Business Park, Cumbernauld Road, Stepps. It is similar to another violent theft earlier in May, when a 27-year-old was robbed of his Vauxhall Corsa in a car park in Firpark Close in the city. He was also beaten on the legs with what police described as ‘weapons’.

There are similarities, also, in the description of the suspects. Both men in Friday’s incident in Stepps are described as white and in their late teens or early 20s and were wearing black fleeces with an orange Aggreko emblem, dark trousers and dark shoes

One is 5ft 7 to 5ft 10 tall, of medium build with short black hair and stubble while the other is between 5ft 8in to 6ft tall and slim, with fair hair.

Glasgow police had reported two bizarre car thefts earlier in the week, when thieves posing as officers stole two cars which had been advertised on the web service, Gumtree.