AN ex-professional footballer has spoken out after his mother was carjacked outside a Castle Bromwich petrol station.
Daryl Burgess, a former West Bromwich Albion defender, said that the 68-year-old's blue Mini had been driven off the Morrisons forecourt, on the Chester Road.
Taking to Twitter, he criticised the police response to yesterday's theft.
In an open message to the force, he wrote: "You will call her tomorrow & TRY to make an appointment for NEXT WEEK! Are you serious..????"
The incident happened only a couple of days after another vehicle was stolen from an elderly man at the same petrol station. Another woman, also in her 60s, was targeted on the adjacent supermarket car park last November.
Today a Morrisons spokesman said the company was conducting a full security review of the site and assisting police with their inquiries.
West Midlands Police said that in the six months since October they had dealt with 26 carjackings across the region and made 19 arrests.
Most of those taken into custody have been young men, ranging from their teens to late twenties.
If you have any information about the latest incident, call officers on 101.
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