Incredible moment frail female pensioner, 72, bundled burglar out of her house and chased him away
Margaret Allen battered the hooded intruder after she caught him charging down the stairs with fists full of her jewellery
THIS is the dramatic moment an angry gran bundled a burglar out of her home and chased him away.
Frail Margaret Allen, 72, grappled with the hooded intruder after she caught him charging down the stairs with fists full of her jewellery.
The retired hospital manager grabbed the thug and tossed him out of the front door before chasing him down the street in Canterbury, Kent.
She forced the boozed-up burglar into dropping her engagement ring, a 40th wedding anniversary ruby ring and her laptop.
CCTV later showed he had been in her home for some 11 minutes.
Brave Margaret said: “I heard a noise from upstairs and then suddenly this stranger appeared.
“I was angry more than scared and just wanted him out of my house.
“My husband Les is poorly at the moment so I just got hold of this chap and literally bundled him out of the door.
“I dialled 999 and was shouting out to neighbours for help.
“A few gave chase along with some people who had been in the cemetery, which backs onto our house.
“The last thing I saw was him running away with my jewellery falling out of his pockets.”
The burglary happened at about 5pm on Saturday after Margaret had briefly gone out to pick up litter in the cemetery and left her door open.
Her 81-year-old husband was in the house, but because of his illness was attached to a feeding tube in a separate room.
Mrs Allen, who was accommodation manager at Kent and Canterbury Hospital for 40 years, said: “When I came back in, I saw a carrier bag in the hallway which had ham, bars of chocolate and cans of lager in it.
“I thought ‘that’s odd’ because it was nothing to do with us. That’s when the burglar appeared.
“He was very well built and wearing a baseball cap and a hooded top, but didn’t have the hood up.
“He mumbled something and had a foreign accent. I also think he was drunk.
“When we checked our CCTV, it appeared he had been in the house for about 11 minutes, which is quite alarming.
“Afterwards, friends said I was lucky he didn’t have a knife because there was a bit of a tussle.
“But I didn’t think of that at the time and was more angry than frightened.”
A 29-year-old man has been charged with burglary.
Jurijus Kuznecovas, of Canterbury, has been bailed to appear before Margate Magistrates Court on November 3.
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