BROKEN GLASS WAS held to the head of a baby who was in the back seat of a car that was stolen in Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

PSNI detectives are appealing for information following a reported hijacking in the city centre shortly before 4am. 

A PSNI spokesperson said it was reported that a delivery driver had exited his vehicle, a white Vauxhall Agila, in the Donegall Place area of the city at around 3.50am.

His partner and her young baby were in the back seat. 

The PSNI spokesperson said two men approached the car on foot and one got into the driver’s seat and drove away. 

The second man appeared to try to stop him but was unsuccessful.

A short distance away, close to Fountain Lane in the city, the man turned and held what the woman believed to be a broken bottle or piece of broken glass to the head of the young baby.

He then told her to get out of the car.

When she and the baby did so, he drove towards City Hall and onto Chichester Street. 

The vehicle was later found in Upper Stanfield Street.”

The PSNI described it as an “absolutely shocking incident and an extremely distressing ordeal for the victims”. 

“They have been left shaken, but thankfully otherwise uninjured,” added the PSNI spokesperson.
Police enquiries are ongoing and officers have appealed to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw anything suspicious, or anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage, to make contact.