“I always keep a baseball bat under the bed, but I never imagined having to use it against someone pointing a gun at my wife,” says Mike* calmly. In the early hours of the morning, Anne* woke up to find a man dressed in black with a gun standing at the foot of their bed. The intruder proceeded to tie them up, brutally beat Mike, and forced Anne at gunpoint to show him where they kept their valuable possessions. He then fled with £50,000 worth of watches, cash, and jewelry, some of which he forcefully ripped from Anne.
The couple had minimal security measures in place, including an outdated alarm system, no safe, and easily accessible bi-fold doors, which made it effortless for the intruder to enter.