Vandals lacking ‘intelligence and common sense’ doused a woman’s car in paint because they wrongly believed it had been driven to a holiday home during the coronavirus lockdown.

Sue Skyba posted the image of her damaged yellow VW Beetle on Facebook, saying she assumed it was attacked because ‘people thought it was someone on holiday’.

In fact, her son, who has autoimmune-disease, drove the car to the property in Cornwall so he could self-isolate away from her.

Describing the attack, in Duporth, just outside St Austell, Cornwall, Sue, 63, said: ‘This happened to my car last night.

‘I can only assume people thought it was someone on holiday. My son has an autoimmune disease and my neighbour has kindly let him move into his holiday home as we have to self isolate due to returning from abroad.’

Sue’s son Philip, 40, was living at his parents property after splitting from his wife.

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When the Skybas returned from visiting family in Australia, they were told to self-isolate and didn’t want to risk Philip’s health.

Sue told CornwallLive: ‘I’m really angry because I have two jobs, neither of which I can do – I help look after holiday homes, which are obviously closed, and I work in Asda, but can’t at the moment because I’m isolating. So I can’t work to pay for the repairs on my car.’

She added: ‘As well as people dying, there’s an awful lot of hardship and someone adds to it by doing this.’

Signs have appeared in the village telling second home users to ‘stop spreading the virus.’

Locals were quick voice their to support.

Samantha Miles said: ‘How terribly, terribly sad. This virus has turned some people into saints and others into devils.

‘Even if you were a tourist, there are better ways to get your point across.

‘What they’ve done shows a lack of intelligence and common sense.’

Graham Jefferies said: ‘A very genuine reason for a holiday let to be occupied. Sorry to see this.Shame some judge before asking questions.’

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