. The 24-year-old said she desperately dug her keys out of her pocket after the unknown thug said: "Give me your f****** keys!", reports the Manchester Evening News. Lauren had been for a postnatal checkup at the doctors in Little Lever, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, when the ordeal took place at about 4.45pm. Lauren's Seat was parked outside her local GP surgery when it was stolen As she was taking her baby up out of his pram to place him in his car seat, she claimed a man wearing all-black approached her Seat. Speaking just hours after the ordeal, Lauren said: "At around quarter to five I was coming out of the doctors. I had been for a postnatal check-up because my baby is only 10 weeks old. "I had walked over to my car and opened up the back door where his car seat is, and had picked him up out of the pram to put him in. "As I looked to my right, there was this man stood there dressed in all black who said 'give me your f***ing keys'. Lauren said she was robbed by a man wielding a machete-like knife "I didn't think it was real at first. I was just in shock so walked back and said 'you what?'. He then shouted at me again asking me to give over my keys. "I just started trying to find the keys in my pocket, all whilst holding my baby. He was telling me to hurry up so I just threw them at him. I didn't even have time to process what was happening." Desperate to keep her){kind=link}
Lauren Mercer was holding 10-week-old son Leo when a hooded man wielding a machete-like knife demanded the keys to her Seat car before speeding off in it, she claims
A mum had her car stolen at knifepoint in broad daylight while she was holding her newborn baby, she claims.
Lauren Mercer said she was in the car park of her local GP surgery when she was forced to hand over her keys to a hooded man carrying a machete-like blade.
She was holding 10-week-old son Leo during the alleged incident on Tuesday afternoon (November 1).
The 24-year-old said she desperately dug her keys out of her pocket after the unknown thug said: “Give me your f****** keys!”, reports the Manchester Evening News.