A retired couple from Maidstone who have been the victims of a series of unprovoked attacks have been targeted yet again by a person throwing paint over their car.

On Saturday morning, around 8.40am, a man walked up the road on the Vinters Park estate where Kay and Peter Lowe's car was parked on their front drive and threw a tin of white paint over it.

See the moment the paint is thrown over the car

The incident follows two similar attacks the Lowe's suffered in the autumn of last year and a third incident in which 70-year-old Mr Lowe arrived home to find a man on his driveway.

As Mr Lowe opened his car door, he was immediately and repeatedly punched by the man, who he had never seen before.

Mr Lowe ended up having hospital treatment.

All the previous incidents had been reported to the police, but their investigations failed to find the culprit.

This time, however, the attacker may have slipped up.

Mrs Lowe, 65, said: "We caught the whole thing on CCTV and there is even a full frontal of his face."

There had been CCTV footage from a previous incident, but then the offender had kept his face well hidden.

Previously, Mrs Lowe had been left so anxious by the attacks that she had been put on tranquillisers by her doctor, but this time she is simply furious.

She said: "I'm so angry he has started it again after seven months of peace.

"I'm sick of it. I'm so angry I could scream."

The offender appears to have a goatee beard.

After the attack, the offender ran off to where he had parked his car around the corner. But as he zoomed off, his driving was so erratic that it was clocked by another motorist who had to swerve out of the way.

The witness described the getaway vehicle as a blue Citroen C4 Picasso with a broken wing-mirror on the driver's side.

The Lowes, who have lived on the estate for 45 years, have now begun the long process of making insurance claims and engaging professionals to clean the paint from their car and driveway.

Mrs Lowe, a former chairman of Vinters Park Residents Association, said: "We are still at a loss to know who would do such a thing or why."

The attacks are all the more serious, because Mr Lowe has previously suffered a heart attack and was this week in hospital to have a pacemaker fitted.

In November he told KentOnline how he was left shaken when he was punched, a month after their car was drenched for the first time.

He said: "He just laid into me. The first blow was the worst. It broke my glasses and cut my eye.

"After that I held my arms in front of me to protect myself and after he hit me about five more times he ran off."

The assault resulted in him having to go to hospital for a CT scan.

Anyone with any information about the attacks is urged to contact Kent Police by calling 01622 604100 and quoting reference 46/111350/21.

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