WA:Two overnight home invasions in Perth

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2011
WA:Two overnight home invasions in Perth

PERTH, Aug 11 AAP - Home invaders have bashed an elderly couple in Perth and in another
incident a young couple barricaded themselves in their bedroom as intruders smashed through
their front door.

A 73-year-old man and his 68-year-old wife were at home in Maylands in Perth's inner
east at around 10.30pm (WST) on Wednesday when three men with towels covering their faces
forced their way in, police said.

The couple were punched in the head and threatened with a large screwdriver as the
offenders demanded money, Sergeant Gerry Cassidy said.

He said one offender stayed with the couple while the other two spent about an hour
ransacking their home before the trio fled with money, a mobile phone and a camera.

The couple were taken to hospital for treatment of head injuries.

In another home invasion only hours later at Morley in Perth's inner north early on
Thursday a young couple heard their front door being smashed in and quickly barricaded
themselves in their bedroom, Sgt Cassidy said.

When the offenders could not get in through the bedroom door they went back outside
and smashed the bedroom window, he said.

The couple called police from their bedroom and the offenders fled before officers arrived.

Police were investigating whether the two attacks were committed by the same offenders.

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