Hood and headlights stolen from a key worker’s car while parked outside a hospital

A Welsh health worker had her hood and headlights stolen while she was parked outside the hospital where she worked.

Helen Dawes cares for the children of key workers at Wales University Hospital in Cardiff, but during her shift on Wednesday, a security guard told her, “I’m sorry to tell you this, but you don’t have the hood on your car.”

The 44-year-old woman had parked her white Ford Fiesta in the hospital parking lot.

Speaking to Wales Online, she said: “I couldn’t assimilate it. I was surprised.”

Dawes said he could not understand how this could happen during the coronavirus pandemic, when key workers are under so much pressure.

She added: “You go into work in this crisis and you get a phone call like that.

“You just think, ‘Why would someone want to do something like that?’

“They would know that I work or that I am visiting someone in the hospital.

“I cannot drive the car because it is not safe. My husband is working from home, so he will have to take me to work.”

Ms. Dawes reported the incident to the police and was allowed to drive the vehicle home as long as she did not use a highway.

In a statement, the South Wales police said: “Police in Cardiff are investigating the theft of a hood that was taken from a white Ford Fiesta that was parked inside the University Hospital of Wales.

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