Petrified couple sprayed with chemical and beaten in horror home invasion
dailystar.co.ukcrime took place on Sunday, February 20, at a property in Bredbury, Greater Manchester, at around 7:45pm when the couple suddenly spotted a hooded man who had put his head around their living room door and he sprayed them with an unknown liquid.
The unnamed couple originally thought it may have been a friend playing a prank, Manchester Evening News reports. But to their horror, they soon realised the man was a complete stranger and he wasn't alone.
One victim, a 34-year-old man, immediately jumped up and began fighting off the two masked burglars.As the group struggled, one attacker continued to spray a chemical in the other 29-year-old victim's face.
Keeping her eyes closed to protect herself, the woman grabbed her phone and ran into her garden to call the police. Inside, the tussle continued until one burglar demanded the victim hand over the keys to his Ford Ranger pickup truck and began beating him with a brass fireplace tool stand.
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