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Police hunting the kidnappers who knocked out a heavily pregnant woman last week, say it was an unprovoked and unnecessarily violent attack.
The kidnappers, possibly foreigners who spoke with an accent, drove around with the unconscious woman in the back of her own four wheel drive vehicle for several hours before stopping and throwing her out on a grass verge.
They had earlier knocked her senseless as she got into her vehicle outside the National Bank in the west Auckland suburb of New Lynn about 4.30pm on Friday.
She was thrown out onto a grass verge about three hours later near Rosebank Rd. Her waters broke and she feared her baby may have been harmed.
Police said she had been checked and she and her unborn baby were both physically well.
"She was very upset. Physically she is okay. Emotionally I am not sure," Detective Sergeant Peter Litherland from Waitakere police told NZPA.
He said the woman did not get a look at the men as they knocked her senseless and she could not give police a description.
He said police had not been able to identify a motive. The woman was not wealthy.
The woman's Isuzu Bighorn four-wheel-drive vehicle, registration BDZ904, was recovered yesterday morning but there had been no sign of the attackers.
"We are very keen to catch up with these people," Mr Litherland said.
"There would have been people in the area of the National Bank on Friday afternoon. There would have been people in the area of Rosebank Rd about 7.45pm and people could well have witnessed someone they know driving an Isuzu Bighorn and know that they are not usually in possession of one," he said.
- NZPA
