A MOTHER is worried for her safety after three of her car windows were smashed in a late-night attack.

Diana Pithers, who lives in Penhill with her ten-year-old son, was shocked when she saw her car, which was parked on the road, had had its windscreen and two side windows smashed on Friday.

Nothing was taken from the silver Nissan Serena, but Diana, who has been told the damage will cost more than £1,000 to fix, said the worst bit is not knowing if the offender will come back.

“There were five other cars parked there. If this is personal, are they coming to my house next?,” she said.

“It is the uncertainty of not knowing who has done it.”

The 41-year-old usually parks her car in a space to the rear of her house. But she had left it at the front when she got back from shopping at Asda because she had let her friend park in the space.

“I looked out my window after I heard a noise outside, but it wasn’t until I went upstairs that I could see something was wrong with the windscreen,” she said.

“I walked around the side of the car and was shocked to see two of the side windows were smashed.”

Diana has fully comprehensive cover but will have to pay hundreds of pounds in excess payments to pay for replacement windows, which are worth more than £1,240 in total, and she will lose her no claims bonus.

The car is out of action and she is having to use alternative means to visit her terminally ill mother and get her son to school.

And because the car has been imported from Japan, she is struggling to find a replacement door window and is worried that it might be written off if the costs of the repairs get too high.

“I nearly dropped to the floor when I saw it because I know how much that is going to set me back,” she said. “You have no idea how disheartening it is. I am without a car and I normally take my son and two other children to school.

“There should be more police around here, it would be a deterrent.”

A spokeswoman for Wiltshire Police said officers have visited the house and determined that the damage was carried out with a hammer or a bat, but it was not left at the scene.

The incident occurred at about midnight during the evening of September 23.

Witnesses or anyone with information about the crime should contact Wiltshire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.