Toddler loses toe after man tries to snatch her from mother in violent struggle on street

The 24-year-old was "experiencing a psychotic episode at the time", according to the Manchester Evening News.

The attacker grabbed the young girl by the neck and tried to run "while holding her upside down", the Crown Prosecution Service said.

The mum, who was with her other child, struggled with him and tried to grab her daughter back.

A member of the public restrained Enow after witnessing the incident, while the mother grabbed her daughter who was bleeding heavily from her foot.

Another passerby stopped her car and ran out to help, leaving her child in the passenger seat.

Enow then ran towards the car and jumped into the driver's seat but didn't have the keys, so ran from the scene.

The CPS said the the 24-year-old later climbed into the passenger seat of a taxi that stopped at the junction of Spa Road and Mayor Street before he asked the driver to take him to the football stadium.

However, the driver locked him inside the car until police arrived.

Following the incident, the toddler lost her toe, underwent an operation on her foot and received treatment for a broken arm.

Enow pleaded guilty to kidnap and inflicting grievous bodily harm at an earlier hearing.

Today he was jailed for four years. Garry Crawford, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West, said: "This was a terrifying incident which encapsulates every parent’s worst nightmare.

"It is thanks to the quick thinking of the child’s mother, the good Samaritans and the taxi driver, that Martin Enow was stopped before any further harm could occur to either the child or himself.

"We understand that Martin Enow was suffering with a mental health condition when he committed this offence. I hope that following the conclusion of the case the child’s family will have some sense of closure and that they can now begin to put what happened behind them."