Raider held knife to my throat, says schoolgirl

A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when a masked robber held a knife to her and threatened to slit her throat.

Aisling Dwyer was 13 when raiders burst into her family home looking for cash and threatening to kill her millionaire father and brother. Her father, Bernard Dwyer, who was raised on a farm in Co Sligo, came to Britain with only £30 in his pocket and worked as a labourer. He runs a successful construction company with contracts all over the world.

The armed gang had targeted the house less than an hour after battering to death restaurant owner Helen Chung, 65, when she would not reveal where she kept her savings.