Shocking moment brave granny chases two machete-wielding thugs out of her shop with a CHAIR

A BRAVE grandmother scared two machete-wielding raiders out of her shop by chasing them out with a steel chair.

Hamalata Patel, 56, was confronted by two thugs wearing balaclavas and brandishing machetes while working at her K and L Newsagent store in Winsford, Cheshire, at 10am last Friday (October 21).

The grandmother-of-two, who lives in Winsford, said she 'lost the plot' when one of the raiders banged his weapon on her counter.

CCTV footage shows the incredible moment she picked up a steel chair and raced toward the pair, causing them to flee from the shop empty-handed.

Brave Hamalata, whose husband Dhirubhai, 63, and granddaughters Zuri, four, and Emi, two, were in the back of the shop at the time, insisted she is 'not to be crossed'.

Hamalata said: "The shop was empty when two lads walked in holding the machetes.

"They were shouting at me and I just told them 'if you need it then take it' but one of them banged the machete on the counter and started to damage the shop so I just lost the plot.

"We have a chair that we leave out for some of our older customers so I picked it up and chased them out of the shop while I shouted at them, 'okay, if you ask for it then you are going to get it and I'm coming for you'.

"They ran out of the shop and my husband who was in the back came out to see that I was okay.

"Word of what I've done is starting to get around the area, everyone knows what I'm like - I help out with people and charities and I care for people in the local area, but don't ever cross me."

Hamalata, who has owned the shop with her husband since 1984, said she has never experienced an incident like it in her shop before.

And she also claims to 'feels sorry' for the pair after their attempted raid.

Hamalata said: "My two grandchildren were in the back of the shop and they often come out when they hear me so I didn't want them to hear what was going on. That's why I did what I did.

"Luckily, they were quite slow to come out and they didn't see anything and to be honest, it is only now that it has started to hit me a week later.

"In a sense, I feel sorry for the two who came in but they have done wrong.

"I've been here for more than 30 years and I've never had anything like this before.

"We had an incident in 2011 when someone tried to break into the cash machine outside the shop when we had it.

"But no one was in the shop at the time so this was a lot worse."

A spokesman for Cheshire Police confirmed two teenagers aged 16 and 14 have been arrested and released on bail until November 19.

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