“My 13-year-old son was attacked by adult men who drove up in a car and jumped on him – now I won’t even let him leave the estate”

A mum has spoken of her horror after her teenage son was “attacked” by a group of men who drove up in a car and attacked him and several of his friends.

Kirsty, 36, who asked us not to use her full name, said her son was in Burnage Lane, Manchester, on Sunday, June 2, when the attack took place. The men kicked the boy in the head so that he had to be taken to hospital.

That afternoon, Kirsty’s mother tried repeatedly to call her 13-year-old son, but he didn’t answer. Just after 6:30 p.m., concerned, she called again and the phone was answered by a man, the stepfather of one of her son’s friends, who told her he had been “hurt.”

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Recalling the phone call, Kirsty, from Heaton Moor, said: “I’m a very panicked mum so whenever someone answers my son’s phone I ask myself: ‘Where is my son, is he okay, what happened to him?’ ‘

“Usually someone says they dropped their phone, but this time they said, ‘I’m really sorry to say this, but your son, my son and their friends were attacked by a group of men.’

“I started to panic and break down, and he told me that my son was hurt and rocking back and forth and that it was the worst for him.”

Kirsty said the other parent brought her son home. After returning home, he told her that he and two friends were walking down the street when a car drove past them, stopped and waited. He said a group of men then jumped out and attacked them.

“He was very worried. When I tried to get him to go to the hospital, he was really upset, he just wanted to stay home and didn’t want to go out,” she said.

Kirsty claims that after the alleged attack on Burnage Lane in Manchester she visited residents in the area and asked them to record the incident.

“There’s no way someone is going to tell me that my son was attacked and I’m just going to sit at home and do nothing about it,” she said, adding: “At the end of the day, no child should be treated like that.” He was unmistakable as a man, and yet they raised their hands against him.

The video shows a yellow car pulling up and, shortly thereafter, a group of young boys approaching it. As the boys approach, several men can be seen jumping out of the car and running towards them.

In another clip, the boys walk towards a car and then flee from pursuit.

Kirsty said she saw the man “pull away” her son in the footage.

“First they beat my son. They kicked him in the head and hit him in the stomach and ribs. His ear is still ringing and he feels a sharp pain in his side where he was kicked,” she said.

Kirsty said she and her son were taken to hospital after the alleged attack and given a leaflet about head injuries. She said the alleged attack also had an impact on the mental health of her son, who did not leave home for over a week after the incident.

“He said he now gets nervous around cars and cars passing by,” she said, adding: “He was shocked and very scared. Who is someone who makes my son feel this way?”

Kirsty said she reported the incident to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and urged them to find and arrest the men behind the alleged attack as soon as possible. GMP confirmed it was still investigating.

“I’m afraid I don’t even want to let him go. Now I won’t even let him out of the property. It’s not nice, especially when they are men and not children.

A police spokesman said: “An investigation into common assault and battery is ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time.”