Pensioner, 86, uses crutch to fight off intruder

AN 86-year-old widow who used a crutch to bring down an intruder described yesterday how she called police and told them: “I’ve just caught a burglar.”

Gwyneth Davies, from Treharris, near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, hit the man four times with her metal stick when she caught him in her kitchen.

The pensioner said the man then buried his face in his hands and pretended to cry as she made him sit on a stool and stood guard over him until the police arrived.