In the heart of east Manchester, a woman opens the front door. A rush of cold air and rain hits her as she stands in the hallway. She clutches her dressing gown and wraps it tightly around her.
'A masked man ploughed a truck into my home with my kids inside... now my son can't sleep'
07.12.2023 - 19:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mother and her two young children have spent seven months living in hotels and a flat after a masked man demolished the front of their home with a truck.
Just days earlier, the downstairs windows of the property were smashed by a hooded axeman.
The brand new three-bedroom housing association property suffered major damage after the vehicle was reversed into it at speed and left embedded in the broken brick work. Firefighters had to install temporary supports to ensure it did not collapse completely.
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The incident happened at the home of Caroline Keenan in Openshaw, Manchester, and triggered a complex police investigation. But so far, no one has been charged with any offence. Mrs Keenan, 38, claims that the incident was preceded a few days before by the downstairs windows of her home being smashed by a hooded man using an axe, an attack which was caught on CCTV.
The truck incident happened at about 12.30am on May 24th this year in Beede Street. Since then, the owners of the property, One Manchester housing association, have found accommodation for the family in three hotels and currently an apartment block in Manchester city centre.
Caroline and her children, aged eight and ten, want to return to the house but due to a police investigation and long negotiations with insurers, work on the repairs will not start until next week and are expected to take six weeks to complete. Caroline said: "I will not be intimidated, I want to return to the house."
She added: "On the night of the truck (incident) I had called police to say there was someone revving a
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