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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Elderly woman, 79, beaten on head during home invasion

by

Sascha Wilson
62 days ago
20250523

An el­der­ly woman was vi­o­lent­ly at­tacked dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia on Tues­day morn­ing.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 9.45 am at a two-storey home.

Po­lice said the 79-year-old pen­sion­er was in the kitchen on the ground floor of her home when two in­trud­ers en­tered through an open front door. The ban­dits beat the el­der­ly woman on her head and about the body, ty­ing her hands and feet be­fore pro­ceed­ing to steal sev­er­al items, in­clud­ing $5,000 in cash, two tele­vi­sions, gold jew­ellery, and two 20-pound gas cylin­ders.

The sus­pects ran­sacked the prop­er­ty be­fore run­ning off.

The el­der­ly woman man­aged to free her­self and alert­ed au­thor­i­ties with the as­sis­tance of passers­by. She was lat­er tak­en to the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty for med­ical treat­ment.

Fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions, of­fi­cers searched a heav­i­ly forest­ed area near Sand Pit Road, where they saw a makeshift camp with a man hold­ing a tele­vi­sion. The man, who is known to the po­lice and had no fixed place of abode, dropped the tele­vi­sion and ran deep­er in­to the for­est, elud­ing the of­fi­cers. The tele­vi­sion and the two gas cylin­ders in the camp were lat­er iden­ti­fied by the vic­tim.

South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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