A 38-year-old St Joseph man wres­tled a gun away from a ban­dit who tried to rob his moth­er at their home on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said the man was at his fam­i­ly’s home on Mara­cas Roy­al Road at around 10.50 pm when he saw a ban­dit in the liv­ing room. The stranger point­ed a gun at the man’s 60-year-old moth­er and de­mand­ed her chain.

The ban­dit then aimed the gun at the man, who fought with the in­trud­er and wres­tled away his pis­tol. The ban­dit fled the house, leav­ing the gun be­hind.

St Joseph po­lice were called and seized the firearm, which con­tained sev­en rounds of .380 am­mu­ni­tion. Of­fi­cers of the St Joseph CID are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.