A Melbourne grandmother has bravely confronted two armed home intruders this week.
On Monday night, at around 1.30am Pat, 76, woke up to “two massive thumps” on the doors of her Brighton East home. When she went to investigate the source, she found two men dressed in all black, and one of them held a knife.
“Two men dressed in black completely with face masks and hoodies, one standing in my loungeroom with a knife,” she told 3AW radio.
“The knife was about 20 centimeters long, or the blade on it.
“I was watching his eyes. I didn’t notice whether it was a kitchen knife, a serrated knife or what it was.”
CCTV footage captured the two intruders approaching the home before climbing over the fence and kicking in Pat’s French doors to enter her house.
“The first one said ‘give me your keys. Give me your car keys’,” Pat said.
“I said ‘no’ and then I said ‘get out of my house’. And I did it in the loudest voice I could.”
Pat’s daughter came out and started screaming before ringing triple-0, who arrived at the scene in six minutes, but the two masked men had managed to escape in a white SUV.
“I think we scared them off,” Pat said. “I dare say they were youngish people.
“I stood my ground.
“Once I saw them I was probably about four metres … from where they were standing.”
The 76-year-old grandmother described herself as “quite a calm person” but said it was “pretty frightening to see what I saw”.
Fortunately, nobody was injured in the incident.
3AW radio host Jacqui Felgate told Pat she was “brave” and asked if she ever expected to be the victim of knife crime, amid Melbourne’s current crime crisis.
“No,” Pat said.
“But there has been some crime in bayside. I hear it on the news all the time.
“I did not think I would be the one on the news.”
Police are investigating the incident, with Detective Sergeant Jason Caruana saying things could have gone wrong.
“It’s definitely very brave and I think it’s just natural instinct when you hear noises at that time of the morning,” he said.
“I don’t think the victims would have known what they were walking into.
“It definitely could have been worse with an offender armed with a knife. Serious injury could have happened, or even death.”
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