Police are investigating after a driver pulled up alongside children playing in their garden to allegedly offer them doughnuts through the window.

Footage shows the children running inside after the incident after the stranger stops to speak to them on the residential street in Partington, Greater Manchester, on Saturday.

Police are now investigating the incident as suspicious after the children’s worried parents raised the alarm.

Quick-thinking Sade, eight, shouted to her step-sister Roxy, six, to run - before scooping up sibling Ameya, two, and running with her into the house.Sade and Ameya’s mum Rechelle Haigh, 26, who captured the footage on CCTV, said: “It’s made me petrified.

“You don’t think something like this is going to happen on your doorstep.“I’m so proud and glad that Sade knew what to do, I’ve always told her to run if something like this happens.”

She added: “We just want to make sure other kids and their parents are aware - if it does happen to you run as fast as you can.”

It was Saturday at around 2pm and the girls were playing on the trampoline in the garden.

A large white van is seen to slowly pull up alongside the girls - and a man appears to offer a white box through the window.

Rechelle, who runs Altrincham Car Sales with husband Arran, 30, was inside the family house on Inglewood Close.

She added: “I was sitting in the living room when I heard a van screech down the road.

“Then I heard a man’s voice saying ‘hey come here, do you want some doughnuts?’

“I thought, that’s not right.”

Sade ran into the house to shout to her mum about the man outside.Rechelle added: “Then she belted it back out and shouted for Roxy to come in before grabbing her sister. She was petrified.”

The girls safely inside, Rechelle said she confronted the man who she said told her he wanted to give the girls doughnuts before ‘speeding off’.

Rechelle said the experience had rocked her sense of security.

She said: “My girls usually play out front daily - I won’t let them do that again without supervision.”

Rechelle has reported the incident to the police.

Greater Manchester Police say they are investigating exactly what happened but say they are treating the incident as ‘suspicious’, and are due to interview the mum and children about the incident.

A GMP spokesman said: “We were called on Saturday to reports of a suspicious incident on Inglewood Close, Partington. A man has approached two girls and asked if they wanted doughnuts.”