GENOCIDE VICTIMS: Trudie Lee, 61, and her husband, Doug, 66
Eldery couple wrestle would-be burglar
Their instinctive response to defend themselves was what saved Trudie Lee, 61, and her husband, Doug, 66, when a robber attacked them in their home in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga last week.
At 21:30 on Tuesday, Lee opened the kitchen door to let their dog out. She said they had secured their home with makeshift door locks made from PVC pipes, Lowvelder reported.
The pipes, positioned indoors, keep the door handles from being pushed down from the outside.
As soon as she stepped out of the kitchen, a burglar came around the corner towards her. “His hands were covered with socks,” she remembered.
In her hand, Lee still held the pipe and hit the man with it. Meanwhile, her husband rushed to help her. He managed to overpower the burglar and pinned him town against a small wall about two metres from the door.
“While Doug had the intruder pinned to the ground, I grabbed the closest thing I could find. It was a plant pot,” said Lee said.
Using the pot, she hit the perpetrator on the head. The couple saw the man fiddling in his pocket and assumed he wanted to take out a weapon of some sort. Doug lifted him off the low horizontal wall and pinned him against the kitchen’s vertical wall. The man eventually wriggled himself loose from Doug’s grip and stood still for a moment, staring at the couple in disbelief.
They then told the burglar to go away to which he reportedly obliged.
Police and security personnel then arrived at Lees’ home.
Although nobody was seriously injured, Trudie did suffer from whiplash and bruises incurred during the attack.
No arrest has been made in connection with the incident.
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