A distraught woman who spends her days delivering food and medicines to elderly villagers has left a tearful video after her car was wrecked by heartless vandals.
Helen Crouch, 41, volunteers as a community responder in the villages around Leicestershire where she lives, and has spent the past two weeks delivering supplies and helping vulnerable people.
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After taking a shepherd's pie to an elderly person on Sunday, Helen was horrified to return to her car to find thugs had punctured her tires, smashed her windows and keyed her VW Touareg.
Taking out her camera to film what had happened, the single mum broke down in tears.
"Do you know what, for the past two weeks I've done solid response work for two villages and somebody has stabbed every single one of my tyres," she said tearfully.
"The car is now broken down and it was needed. I hope you're bloody proud of yourselves!"
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She added: "There were leaflets advertising the response team in my back windows and everyone has seen me out and about in Thornton, Bagworth and Stanton under Bardon.
"No other car was damaged. I think someone has deliberately targeted my car to try to stop me doing what I am doing.
"It is sick beyond belief. All four tyres have holes in. It looks like someone has used a big screwdriver to inflict the damage."
Helen's car was attacked while it was parked outside a pensioner's home on Main Street in Thornton, Leicestershire.
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Since she began volunteering in her local coronavirus response team, Helen has helped over 100 vulnerable people during the lockdown, making the act all the more sick.
Helen, a self-employed interior decorator, said: "I don't know who did it but it could be someone who thought I was breaking the restrictions by driving in my car.
"Whoever did this should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
"I was doing what I could for people who can't get to the shops or chemists but I can't do it without my car."
Since posting her video, supporters have raised over £1,000 on a Just Giving page to replace Helen's tyres, but police still want to know who committed the crime.
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A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police said: "We have had a report of damage to a vehicle parked in Main Street, Thornton.
"This is believed to have happened between about 7pm on March 28 and 9am the next day.
"We would ask anyone who knows anything about the incident to call us."
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