Mum Louise Frantzich could hardly be blamed for believing someone has it in for her family.

It is only a couple of months since the family’s car was stolen – along with hundreds of pounds worth of specialist equipment which is vital to help Louise’s two-year-old daughter Amy, who has a rare genetic condition, to sit upright.

The car was recovered but sadly the equipment, including a specially-adapted car seat, a buggy, a specialist chair and an oxygen canister, was not. Now there is more heartache for the family after vandals dumped white paint over the car in an overnight attack at the Frantzich family home.

With caring for Amy, the Frantzichs have what anyone would consider enough on their plate. These separate incidents are only adding to their woes and causing stress and anxiety for all the family.

It almost beggars belief to think that someone might have deliberately targeted the car knowing that Amy is part of the family and the Frantzichs need their transport more than most. Anyone who could do such a thing deserves all our contempt and will hopefully be brought to book by the police very soon.

And if this was a random attack by thugs with no knowledge of who owned the car, that hardly makes matters any better. This damage is criminal and must not be tolerated by anyone.

One ray of light in the whole affair is that following the initial story about the theft of the car appearing in the Telegraph & Argus, our generous readers got in touch to offer help to the family. Good deeds such as those will always outweigh the nastiness of small-minded idiots.