“I always keep a baseball bat under the bed, but I never thought I would have to use it against an intruder pointing a gun at my wife,” calmly states Mike*. In the early hours of the morning, Anne* woke up to find a man dressed in black, holding a gun at the foot of their bed. The intruder proceeded to tie them up, violently beat Mike unconscious, and forced Anne at gunpoint to show him where they kept their valuable possessions. In the end, he managed to escape with £50,000 worth of watches, cash, and jewelry, some of which he forcefully took from Anne.
The couple had minimal security measures in place, including an outdated alarm system, no safe, and easily accessible bi-fold doors that the intruder effortlessly entered through.