A MUM has slammed yobs who hurled a stone at a bus her disabled son was travelling on.

Maria Heeks said her son Michael Heeks, 24, who has dyslexia and dyspraxia, was on the number one Transdev bus to Darwen going through Ewood recently when the incident happened.

She said he was sat behind the driver when youths chucked a stone through the bus window right where he was sitting.

She said it left him covered in glass and the stone hit his hip.

Mrs Heeks said the bus driver then stopped the bus and checked that her son was okay, before he then had to get another bus to Darwen.

Describing the youths as ‘mindless’, Mrs Heeks, 56, of Poole Street, Blackburn, said: “My son has moderate learning difficulties including dyspraxia and dyslexia.

“He has been living by himself in supported accommodation in Darwen for the last three months.

“He’d been to Blackburn town hall to pay his rent and council tax and then got the number one bus back to Darwen.

“It was while he was travelling through Ewood that the youths hurled a stone through the bus window right where he was sitting. As well as being covered in glass the stone caught him in the hip.”

She said she has reported the incident to Transdev and the police and wanted to personally thank the bus driver who helped her son.

She said: “I could not thank the bus driver personally at the time, but I did go down to report it to the Transdev staff.

“When you think there could have been a baby on board or elderly person that could have been hit. The driver got everyone off and asked my son if he was okay.

“These mindless youths don’t realise actions like this could kill or maim someone.”

Mrs Heeks said it wasn’t the first time that buses have been targeted in Blackburn.

She said: “A few months ago, I was on a bus on Barbara Castle Way, and I heard a big crack and realised that some youths had hurled a stone at the window. It didn’t smash but there was just no need for it.”

Shaun Walmsley, general manager of The Blackburn Bus Company, a Transdev subsidiary, said: “When we encounter incidents of anti-social behaviour affecting our services, we work closely with police to try to identify the individuals involved.

“If we manage to identify the individuals, we will push for appropriate action to be taken against them.”