A MOTHER-of-three is at loggerheads with Worcester police after she claimed they took almost 40 hours to send an officer to see her following an attack.

Police say Amelia Penney cancelled an appointment with an officer due to take a statement but she is adamant she did not.

She was driving along College Street at about 2am on Saturday, May 26, after a night out, when a man jumped out in front of her car.

She stopped and he came towards her. As he came around her side of the car she accelerated away, but not before he had thumped the Ford Fiesta's windscreen with his fist, causing it to shatter and crack.

"I was absolutely petrified, I thought he was going to attack me," said Ms Penney.

She drove straight to the police station in Castle Street, but was so panicked she did not see the intercom system, which she says was not lit up, and was left standing outside in the dark.

"So I drove around the city centre looking for a police car or a policeman but I didn't see any," said Ms Penney, of Brookside Road, St John's. "Then I went to Torch nightclub, in Cripplegate Park, because I thought there might be police there."

Finding none there either, she phoned the police from home.

She claims it took "until Sunday teatime" for an officer to come to her home and take a statement.

"As far as I'm concerned the police were absolutely horrendous," said Ms Penney.

"They called me on Saturday and said they'd got nobody to come and they said they'd come on Sunday morning. But when they hadn't come by midday, I rang again, and they said nobody was available because they were all out at a road accident. They didn't seem bothered, or seem to care."

Worcester police, spokeswoman Vicki Davies, confirmed the incident had been reported and that an officer had been scheduled to talk to the victim.

"At the express request of the victim, a police officer contacted her after 1600 hours on May 26 to arrange an interview.

"The victim cancelled the appointment, stating that it was no longer convenient for her.

"The police contacted the victim on the Sunday and arranged to visit her to take a statement at her convenience that afternoon."

Ms Penney denies cancelling the appointment and insists police had phoned her on Saturday to say they "couldn't make it".