GRANDPARENTS got the “shock of their lives” after a lit cigarette was thrown on to the pram on their four-month-old baby grandson.

Geraldine and Ken Shields, aged 63 and 67 respectively, from Dentons Green were enjoying a stroll with their new grandson Bobby on Cambridge Road in Newtown. 

But their lovely walk was ruined after a lit cigarette, thrown from the window of a house they were walking past, landed in little Bobby’s pram. 

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Geraldine, said: “As grandparents there’s nothing more we enjoy than taking our Bobby out in his pram for a walk.

“But the other day, out of nowhere, a grey thing landed on Bobby’s pram after being thrown from the upstairs window of a house we were passing.

"We got the shock of our lives when we realised it was one of those rollie cigarettes, and it was still lit.

“I couldn’t believe someone had just thrown it from their window without any concern for anyone who was walking past.

“Luckily it landed on his pram cover and not in his pram but it burnt the cover.

“If it had been summer and he didn’t have a cover on it could have scarred him or hurt another child walking past or gone inside someone’s hoodie or something.

“I went knocking on the door but the man who answered denied that he did it.

“I was so scared.

“When I told my daughter she was grateful we had at least seen it, what if we had been chatting and it went inside the cover or something?

“I just want to make people aware and ask smokers to just stub out their cigarettes. It only takes a minute and it is not worth throwing a lit cigarette for the damage it could cause.

“Please think of others.”

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