CANCER GIRL PARTY TERROR; Hammer yobs shower communion kids in glass.

Byline: By MARY MURTAGH

YOBS wrecked a young cancer victim's first holy communion.

Eight-year-old Phoebe Bradshaw was determined her battle with leukaemia would not spoil her special day.

But vandals smashed a window at her Hale home, showering her with glass at the party thrown in her honour.

Her uncut communion cake and a pounds 300 buffet had to be thrown away after glass shards covered the entire room.

Today her mother Jennifer said: "I just want to explain to the people responsible what they did to us on that day.

"They didn't just break a window, they ruined a very important day for a special little girl with leukaemia who has been through a lot.

"I want them to realise that something that they did which was stupid had devastating consequences."

Mrs Bradshaw was making a pot of tea when she heard glass smash in the front room.

Yobs had broken into a guest's car and thrown a hammer through the window. Phoebe, who was on the sofa, was covered with glass.

Mrs Bradshaw said: "Phoebe is devastated. She offered to give the money given to her for her communion to pay for a new window and a new cake."

Phoebe said: "I was upset because there were some boys and they threw a hammer through the window. If I could speak to those boys I would tell them off."

Parents Jennifer, 34, and David, 42, four-month-old brother Laurence and two-year-old sister Marishka, had planned the party with 30 guests and spared no expense for the buffet.

Phoebe has been too sick to attend school and the party was the first time in a year she was able to meet classmates from St Mary's, Much Woolton.

She picked her communion dress and wore an adapted head dress as she lost her hair through chemotherapy.

Diagnosed with leukaemia last summer, she is half way through a two-year course of chemotherapy which has left her weak and bald.

There is an 80% survival rate with Phoebe's form of leukaemia, but she is now undergoing a second bout of chemotherapy, which is the most life-threatening.

Mrs Bradshaw said: "This day was very important to Phoebe. After everything she has been through she deserved a really fantastic time."

Contact police on 0845 4580000 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

You can send Phoebe a message of support at wwwliver poolecho.co.uk/forums