A WOMAN has warned shoppers to be on their guard after seeing her handbag snatched from her car in a smash-and-grab incident on a supermarket car park.

Trish Donlan (48) from Chiltern Road, Parr, had left the bag - containing £300 in cash, credit cards and personal belongings - on the passenger seat of her car while she returned her trolley at the Morrison's store in Baxters Lane, Sutton.

As she returned to the car, a maroon-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier pulled alongside and a man in his 20s got out and smashed the window before snatching the bag.

The car, containing three men and a woman, all in their 20s, then drove out of the car park but was later found abandoned a short distance away on the New Street estate.

Now petrol station attendant Trish is urging other shoppers to be wary. She said: "A lot of people use the supermarket and should beware of leaving bags unattended in their cars."

ANYBODY with information can contact St Helens CID on 0151 777 6053 or the confidential Crimestoppers line on 0800 555 111.

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