A woman who had her car vandalised while she was playing a tennis match is appealing for witnesses.

Joan Hunt, a member of the Salcombe Tennis Club, was playing a match against Totnes when her car was vandalised last Thursday, July 5.

According to Joan, she parked her car around 6pm in the long-stay carpark opposite the leisure centre and ‘had parked correctly between the lines’ in one of the few parking spaces available. She said she is “usually really careful about parking between cars” and is “particularly fond of her car, and doesn’t want it to get damaged by accident”.

When she returned from the match shortly after 9.30pm, she found that her black 2013 Mini Cooper convertible had been “pushed onto the adjacent pavement up against a fence, the wing mirrors had been bent upwards and could not be returned to their normal position, and the words ‘learn to park’ was scratched into the paintwork”.

If you have any information, or were in the Totnes Pavilion carpark between 6 and 9.30pm on Thursday, July 5 and witnessed anything, email Joan at [email protected].