Car thief drives off with Irishwoman’s baby son

An Irishwoman has had her baby son snatched by a car thief in a Spanish town.

The thief drove off with the child as the woman was loading her shopping into the boot of her 4x4 at a supermarket in the Costa del Sol resort of Benalmadena.

Police pursued the thief after a witness phoned the emergency services as the anguished mum screamed her son had been abducted.