The chilling video that could help police track down the five kidnappers who dragged a Sydney mother out of her home – before her body was found in a burnt-out car

Horrific CCTV has shown the moment a mother was dragged out of her home in front of her two young sons and abducted, before her body was found in a burnt-out car.

It’s just one of the videos police are examining after gathering large amounts of CCTV from locations across Sydney including Bankstown, Beverly Hills and locations in between. 

Police were called to a property in Bankstown, western Sydney, about 10:30pm on Thursday night after a group of five men wearing balaclavas forced their way into the woman’s home.

They attacked the woman and her eight-year-old son with a baseball bat before forcing the mother-of-two into a dark-coloured SUV and driving away. 

Footage has now been released that appears to show the kidnapping, with a group running from the home. 

The eight-year-old boy was treated by paramedics for serious head injuries at the home before he was rushed to hospital for further treatment. 

He underwent surgery on Friday morning and remains fighting for life in the ICU. 

The woman’s husband is believed to have been travelling interstate at the time of the attack and has since returned to be at his son’s bedside in hospital.

CCTV footage (pictured) has shown the terrifying moment a group of five dragged a mother of two young boys from her home and abducted her

A 15-year-old boy was also in the home and was taken to hospital for assessment. 

Fire crews discovered a body inside a burnt out car in Sydney’s south-west on Thursday night

 Firefighters are seen hosing down the burnt-out car in Beverley Hills 

An hour after the alleged incident, firefighters were called to a car fire just 10 minutes from the Bankstown home on Welfare Avenue in Beverley Hills. 

After the blaze was extinguished, a body was discovered on the backseat of the car. 

The body is yet to be formally identified but police ‘strongly believe’ it is that of the 45-year-old Bankstown woman.

At the scene of the kidnapping, fingerprint dust was smeared over the front screen door, outside walls and stair rail on Friday afternoon.

A Holden Astra and a Honda CRV were parked in the paved driveway of the weatherboard home and shoes sat on the verandah.

A neighbour who lives with her family in a granny flat behind the dead woman’s house arrived about 4pm not knowing what had occurred.

She had been home during the kidnapping but heard nothing unusual.

‘When I go out this morning there was police here,’ she told Daily Mail Australia. 

Investigations are continuing into the incident 

‘I asked the police but they didn’t tell me anything,’ the neighbour said. 

She said she had lived at her place for about two years and the dead woman and her family had been in their house when she moved in.

She last saw the woman a few days ago but had not seen her husband for about a month.

‘Sometimes I just say hi,’ she said. 

‘They have two boys. Her kids are always inside. They do not play with my girls.

‘I’m a bit scared because I live in the backyard of her house. I feel sad for her and for her children.’

Superintendent Rodney Hart, Commander of Bankstown Area Command, said police believe the incident is a targeted attack.

‘We don’t know if it’s organised crime, we don’t know if it’s gang related,’ he told a press conference on Friday.

Shoes are seen at the doorstep of the family home in Bankstown

‘This crime is horrendous. The level of violence is unheard of but I want to reassure the community that we strongly believe that this is a targeted incident and that this is not been a random kidnapping,’ he said. 

‘The two children are our main focus. Their welfare and their security is paramount to us.’

He said police made contact with their father and he will assist police with their inquiries.

A neighbour who lives opposite from where the car was torched said he had been staying up late ahead of the public holiday.

‘I heard a loud noise,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Friday. ‘There was a loud bang and there was the sound of a car speeding past at the same time’. 

When the man looked through his bedroom window he saw the vehicle ‘engulfed in flames’. 

‘My son saw it also. He was the one who called Triple Zero. He was on the phone for quite some time telling them what happened,’ he said. 

‘Then the police turned up and the fire brigade came. I was too scared to come out. I was real scared.’

Detectives are pictured outside the house in Bankstown on Friday

One resident saw the vehicle ‘engulfed in flames’ through his bedroom window

The man’s son was also awake when he heard a noise and then saw a car on fire. 

‘I assumed there was another vehicle leaving but I didn’t see it,’ he said. 

‘I didn’t think much of it at the time. I thought it might have just been an insurance job or something. I had no idea at the time until I heard the news this morning and found out it was something very sinister.’

Crime scenes have been established in Bankstown and Beverley Hills.  

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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