Gardaí remain baffled over car hijacking

GARDAÍ admitted yesterday to being baffled by the lack of information coming from the public in relation to the hijacking of a 25-year-old woman’s car and her unlawful imprisonment.

Parents in a number of schools on the outskirts of Cork city were questioned yesterday by teams of gardaí who are searching for the man who is alleged to have jumped into her car last Monday morning at a filling station in White’s Cross.

The man, who was wearing a balaclava, pulled her seat belt around her throat and ordered her to keep driving. Her frightening ordeal lasted an hour and 20 minutes before she managed to jump from the car and run to safety.