Yahoo Lifestyle Mum details horror abduction that left her throwing up on road: 'Get in the car'
The abduction comes as authorities all over the country scramble to combat soaring rates of knife-related crimes.
A mother who was abducted in a suburban supermarket car park with her baby daughter and forced to drive around at knifepoint has detailed the harrowing ordeal, which left her violently ill and physically throwing up.
The mum known as Kieran and her baby daughter were abducted and extorted for new MacBooks across the Melbourne suburbs of Rowville and Dandenong on Friday, May 10.
Kieran was getting out of her Suzuki at the Stud Park Shopping Centre car park supermarket in Roweville in Melbourne's southeast last week when a man approached her and threatened her with a knife at about 6pm.
He forced her to get back into the driver's seat of her vehicle while he sat in the back with the child. "I was just getting my daughter out of her car seat and he just came up out of nowhere behind me with a knife,” Kieran told reporters on Friday.
"He just said ‘get in your car and drive'. I just remember begging like 'I’ve got a daughter, you can have my car, you can have my wallet, you can have my phone, take everything, just leave me with my daughter'.
"He kept demanding, 'I don’t want your car, I don’t want your wallet, I don’t want your phone, just get in the car and drive'."
She was forced to drive to electrical stores on the South Gippsland Highway, Cranbourne and Frankston-Dandenong Rd, Dandenong, where the armed man demanded she buy Apple MacBooks at several stores. However, during the traumatic journey, Kieran and the man swapped seats.
"I was very nervous and I’m already quite a nervous driver,” she said. We started driving and he said go to Lynbrook and I said I don’t know where that is. He said, ''I’ll tell you, just go' and to 'stop crying and breathe' but I couldn’t.
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"I wasn’t the best driver at that moment and we just kept driving and I felt really sick. My daughter kept crying in the back seat. All I can remember hearing was my daughter crying. He was trying to get her to calm down and I was trying to get her to calm down.
"We were both crying and he said 'stop crying' and I ended up feeling really sick, so we ended up pulling over so I could throw up."
As she bought computers, the man waited in the back seat of the car with her child. After leaving the last store in Dandenong, he forced her back into the rear seats and he drove the vehicle to Robert Booth Reserve.
"He kept my daughter in the car and he promised he wouldn’t drive away with her or anything," she said. "I went into the stores there at first and I came back and we went to another set of stores."
Husband's desperate attempt to locate wife and baby
Kieran said during their journey, her husband had been able to track her after he was alerted that her phone had been in a car crash. "The guy threw my phone and keys out the windows. My poor husband got a notification on his phone that I was in a crash, so he thought the worst," she said.
"[He] caught up to us, he knew something was wrong, then my dad started calling, so I knew he’d contacted my family looking for me.
“My husband caught up with us at the second lot of stores and tried to confront us and I just remember yelling at my husband that he has a knife and I just didn’t want him to get hurt."
Kieran said her husband tried to save their daughter but the back door was locked. The man then drove off with Kieran and her daughter still in the car.
"We pulled over into a park and he said ‘that’s it, you can take your daughter home’, and I started driving and realised I could pull over for help, so I pulled over to a strip of shops and asked for help,” she said.
The man fled north carrying four MacBooks about 8pm.
Police detail offender's appearance
While Kieran and her child were not injured during the incident, officers are desperately imploring members of the public who may have dash-cam footage or witnessed the abduction to come forward immediately.
"The man is perceived to be Asian in appearance and aged between 20 and 35 years of age," Victoria Police said in a statement.
"He was wearing a grey coloured hoodie, with the hood over his head, a green fluro vest over the top of the hoodie and black/grey pants with black running shoes."
He was last seen carrying a shopping bag containing two Apple MacBook Pro computers in their boxes and two further boxed Apple MacBook computers under his left arm.
Anyone who witnessed the incident, or with any other related information, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
with NCA newswire
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