A pensioner has told of the horrifying moment a naked man abducted her grandchild and attacked her with a cricket bat in a Dundee toy shop.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was speaking after 41-year-old Przemyslaw Kaluzny admitted snatching the child at the Toys R Us Kingsway store.
The woman said: “There was panic everywhere. He ran right towards us, picked up my grandchild and headed for the door.
“It was Easter day and I had gone to Toys R Us with my two grandchildren because they had been given money by my husband.
“As soon as we walked in, an older couple standing at the counter said there was a naked man running about the store.
“I didn’t take it that seriously and said ‘oh, that’s exciting!’.
“No sooner had the words left my mouth than he was right there, coming directly towards us.”
The shocked grandmother added that through panic and disbelief, what happened next was a blur.
She said: “When he picked up my grandchild, the adrenaline kicked in and I thought ‘I have to do something’.
“I swung my handbag at him and I can’t even remember if it hit him, but it got his attention and he focused on me.”
The woman said that the fact Kaluzny had been distracted by her actions meant his grip loosened on her grandchild and the youngster was somehow able to be pulled to safety.
She said: “He started walking towards me and struck me on the cheek with a cricket bat. If he had hit me further up, I suppose he could have killed me.
“I wasn’t too sure what had happened, and I didn’t feel any pain at the time.
“People kept asking me if I was OK, and I thought I was fine. The next thing I remember is a lot of people sitting on him and the police arriving.”
Kaluzny, 41, who had been living in Dundee and is presently detained at Murray Royal Hospital in Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to a total of six charges.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC imposed an interim compulsion order, meaning Kaluzny will be detained in a secure hospital unit to undergo treatment for a mental disorder ahead of a review hearing in December.
At that point the court will be shown the CCTV footage of the attack and be given a full written narrative of the events.