A MAN is due in court in the morning charged after a car with two young children inside was hijacked in Belfast.

Police say the 35-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping, aggravated vehicle taking causing injury, common assault and driving when unfit through drink or drugs.

He is further charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath for preliminary test, failing to provide specimen when driving unfit, no driving licence and using a motor vehicle without insurance.

The suspect is to face Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning for a first remand hearing.

The incident happened on Boucher Crescent on Saturday when a woman got out of a car and a man jumped in and drove off.

Members of the public helped stop the car and the children were not hurt.

The man was arrested a short time later.