'I feared carjackers would kill me'

A woman motorist told today how she feared she was going to be killed by carjackers who stole her Mercedes sports car during a night-time attack.

The lone victim was dragged from the silver SLK 230 Kompressor and forced to lay face down on a verge after she was ambushed on Epsom Downs.

The woman told police: "I was only going at about 25mph because it was so foggy. I couldn't really see what was behind me. Then a car overtook me and blocked the road. A man was shouting 'open the doors'. I was absolutely terrified because of the noise of the driver's window smashing. I thought they were going to kill me."

The victim, in her sixties, had been out with friends in Victoria and travelled back through Battersea and then onto the A3 before taking the A240 towards Epsom.