Girl, three, injured in attempted carjacking

A three-year-old girl has been left injured after a would-be carjacker attacked her father as he delivered a takeaway.

The attacker threatened the 29-year-old man with a Taser-like device and a metal implement as he was walking a street in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in the early hours of Friday.

He demanded the delivery driver’s car keys and money and assaulted him but the victim managed to return to his car where his partner and three-year-old daughter were waiting.

The suspect ran after the Nissan Micra and smashed the passenger side windows as it drove away from Cochranemill Road onto Beith Road.

The child was left with cuts to her legs.

Detective Inspector Robert Bowie said: “This was a terrifying incident for this young family.”