Police are seeking help after a pensioner living in Hainault Road, Leytonstone, was 'mown down in the middle of the street and left in a pool of blood' at 7am on 25 August trying to stop thieves from stealing 400 reclaimed bricks he was planning to use to repair his house.
 
He ran outside when he heard what was going on and shouted at the thieves to give him his bricks back, and threw a brick through the windscreen of the older white Ford Transit type van with two or three white men in it, wearing hi-vis tabards, one of whom was bald. The pensioner was taken to Whipps Cross hospital with an injured leg.
 
Anyone with information is asked to contact Waltham CID on 101.