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THE PLUCKY 86-YEAR-OLD WHO BEAT A BURGLAR WITH HER CRUTCH
Gwyneth Davies wasn't standing for any nonsense
By Geoff Marsh for express.co.uk
AN 86-year-old widow told today how she used a crutch to bring down an intruder and beat him until he cried.
Gwyneth Davies, from Treharris, near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, hit the man four times with her metal stick when she caught him breaking into her kitchen on Friday evening.
The pensioner said the man then buried his face in his hands and wept as she made him sit on a stool and stood guard over him until the police arrived.
Mrs Davies was getting ready for bed when she heard a crash in the kitchen and went to investigate.
She opened the door and found herself face-to-face with the man, who had broken in through the back door.
She said: I heard a bang so I went to look, and there he was standing on the other side of the kitchen door.
“I wasn’t going to have this - I thought I’d do something about it. He played right into my hands, so I let him have it.
“I said ’I’ve got you, lad. You get out from here, I’ve got a walking stick.’ Up goes my walking stick and I hit him across the back four times. If I had broken it I wouldn’t have cared.
“I told him, ’You sit on that stool over there. I’m calling the police. Don’t move or you’ll have my stick across you.’
“When the police came they were killing themselves laughing. My niece arrived and said I looked like a schoolteacher with a naughty child.”
Mrs Davies, who worked at Woolwich Arsenal and at a munitions factory in Bridgend during the Second World War, said she hopes the incident will make people look at her differently.
Despite having suffered recently from a broken hip and ribs, pneumonia and shingles, the widow of 20 years said she was capable of looking after herself.
She said: “Why should old women be looked down on? I think it is terrible the way people look down on you.
“I have been brought up with men, and I am very independent and able to stand up for myself.”
A South Wales Police spokeswoman confirmed that a suspect was arrested at the scene, adding: “It appears that during the burglary the lady hit the intruder with her crutch.”
* A 26-year-old man appeared at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with burglary and was remanded in custody until tomorrow when he will re-appear.
GOOD FOR HER....
15.04.09, 9:01pm
...It is about time we started fighting back and getting rid of the vermin. Hope he gets what he deserves.
• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment
WAIT FOR IT......
15.04.09, 8:49pm
THE BURGLAR HAS NIGHTMARES
HE DISCOVERS HE HAS HAD HIS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATED
HE EMPLOYS A TOP LEGAL EAGLE FROM MILKA,DEZYSTEM AND PROFITT AND WINS MILLIONS
THE POOR OLD LADY IS ARRESTED ON CPS ORDERS
MAGISTRATES FEEL THEY HAVE TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE AND RELEASE SIX SEX OFFENDERS,TWO MURDERERS AND A DOZEN TERRORISTS TO MAKE WAY FOR HER IN PRISON
• Posted by: JackDoff • Report Comment
GOOD ON YOU
15.04.09, 8:22pm
It's great thst she did not want to become a victim and fought back, it is to be hoped that the police do not try to clear up another crime, and charge her with assault occasioning actual bodily harm with an offensive weapon; vis a vis a crutch. I'm sure Brunstrom in North Wales would have had her collar felt quick smart.
• Posted by: robred • Report Comment
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