Pensioner feared he would be killed during violent robbery

A pensioner, tied up and assaulted by two men armed with knives and a sword, said he thought he was going to die.

Willie Creed and his two sisters were left severely traumatised after the men broke into the house at Ballyluddy, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, last Thursday night.

“The very minute I opened the bedroom door, they were right on top of me and knocked me to the floor. They had two butchers knives — the ones with the 12-inch long blades. Both of them had them [knives] in their hands, and they had two pointed sticks [makeshift swords], about a foot long, which pointed out. They gave me a belt of one of them down on the head and they had the two sisters beat up and tied up. They tied me up as well.”