Vandals are tormenting a single mother by slashing her car tyres with knives and smashing the windows with hammers in four attacks in as many weeks.

Bar worker Lorraine Wharton, 39, from Oxford, cannot understand why vandals keep attacking her Ford Fiesta.

The car, which she parks in the street outside her home in Waynflete Road, Barton, had tyres slashed twice in December and windows have been smashed twice this month.

Ms Wharton wants police to use security cameras to catch the vandals and hopes Oxford City Council will provide a drive so she can park in front of her house.

Ms Wharton, who has two children, said: "As far as I know, I haven't upset anybody on this estate.

"I've asked around and no-one knows why they're targeting me and my family. "I spoke to the street wardens and they said if it happens again they would consider putting up security cameras -- well, it has happened now.

"It could just be kids who think it's funny to do it again and again and might not be just me being targeted. But it might be and that's very frightening.

"If I moved the car somewhere else they might attack the house instead -- that's what I'm afraid of. But I've got a security light and a dog that barks every time someone gets to the gate, so if the council put in a drive, it would stop happening."

The vandals have caused £400 damage. On December 20 one tyre was slashed with a knife and three more were punctured with a screwdriver the next night. A further four tyres were slashed on January 10 and four windows, including the windscreen, were shattered with a hammer.

The vandals returned on Friday night and used a hammer to smash three more windows.

A Thames Valley Police spokesman said officers would investigate the attacks. City council street wardens are due to meet community teams to discuss the situation this week.