Mother and daughter living in fear after man broke into home

AN invalid who is mostly confined to her bedroom yesterday told a court of her terror when a Latvian man forced his way into her home.

Ann Thuillier, a mother of three, told yesterday how her world changed on March 9 last when Latvian national Yanis Skudra, aged 23, forced his way into her home at Newtown, Castletroy, Co Limerick.

Mrs Thuillier suffers from the chronic fatigue condition ME, and the 56-year-old has spent 95% of her time within the confines of her bedroom at home in Limerick for the past four years.