CCTV footage shows 'suspicious' man offering young girls doughnuts from back of van

Mother posts video to Facebook as 'warning' to other parents

Footage shows Sadè Haigh carrying her younger sister Ameya inside to safety (Rechelle Haigh/Facebook)

A mother of two young children has shared a video which she claims shows a man attempting to lure them into his white van from their front garden.

Rechelle Haigh posted CCTV footage of the man approaching her children on social media, where it has been widely shared.

The video shows her daughters, Sadè, 8, Ameya, 2, and stepdaughter Roxie, 6, playing in the garden of their home in Partington, Manchester, as a man in a white van pulls up outside.

Sadè, the eldest, is seen taking her younger siblings inside.

When her mother went out to confront the driver, he sped away.

Posting the video to Facebook, Ms Haigh said: “Here is the footage of the man that tried to offer my children doughnuts [and] told them to go to his van.

“Absolutely scary to watch but I'm so proud of my Sadè for acting fast in this footage.

“Please keep your kids safe. When I approached this man he acted weird and asked me if my kids wanted some doughnuts then drove off when I stepped out the house.

“I thank my blessing I still have my children and I have always told Sadè to run if this ever happened.”

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester police said: “We received a report on the 7th October that a van driver had offered two girls some doughnuts on Inglewood Close.

“The incident is being treated as suspicious, but we have no evidence as of yet that he tried to lure the girls into his van.

“The investigation is ongoing.”