Mother Of Two Uses Laptop To Fight Off Intruder In Her Home

A mother of two Ffyona McKeating in an act of bravery fought off a burglar after she awoke to find him leaning over her bed.

The Daily Mail reports:

Ffyona McKeating was terrified after she found the intruder in the bedroom of her Walton-le-Dale home in Lancashire. Wearing only her bra and knickers, the brave 43-year-old wrestled with the man, fearing for the safety of her children who were asleep next door.

‘I thought I was going to die,’ said Ffyona, who runs a beauty clinic. I’ll remember the ghoulish look on his face for as long as I live. I’m a light sleeper and I was woken about four o’clock by a noise.

I saw this figure, dressed all in black and wearing gloves, standing at the side of my bed. I just sat bolt upright and screamed as loud as I could. ‘I was just in my underwear, but he wasn’t going to get past me without a struggle.’

Ffyona said the burglar only fled after she was able to ‘ram’ him with her laptop. He had hold of my laptop and that has all my business files on – in fact everything is on there. I stood between him and the bedroom door and squatted as if I was going to start wrestling. Even then he wouldn’t drop the laptop. I was thinking ‘What if he goes for my kids?’

‘We started wrestling. He had hold of the laptop and so did I. He just wouldn’t let go and so I started ramming it into his face. As we were fighting his phone dropped on the floor and so I kicked it under the bed. I just thought if I did get killed then at least the police would find it as evidence. I thought I was going to die.’

Throughout the ordeal, Ffyona said she could hear her two-year-old crying her bedroom, while amazingly her four-year-old slept through the incident. ‘I felt sick, my kids are my whole life,’ she said. ‘My two-year-old was sobbing and said: ‘Mummy there was a bad man in my room’.

‘I was in bits after he eventually ran out. I couldn’t believe a burglar would enter a bedroom while someone is sleeping. When I screamed he just looked horrified. I don’t think he could believe anyone could scream so loud. After it was all over, I did vomit. It was that frightening and it has left me feeling very nervous. Fortunately, I’ve got plenty of friends and relatives who are volunteering to stay with me.

A neighbour’s CCTV footage revealed there had been two raiders, one had been downstairs loading valuables into Ffyona’s car while the other was upstairs.

A police spokesman said two men had been questioned and one had been charged with a number of burglary and theft offences.