Mum’s terror on CCTV as hoodie gang burgles home
A MOTHER yesterday recalled the terrifying moment she came face-toface with hooded raiders who broke into her home as she was putting her young son to bed.
Dramatic CCTV footage shows mother-of-two Dr Shafia Waheed, 46, screaming in terror after going downstairs to investigate a noise then being confronted by five men.
One of the thugs leads her back upstairs, where she is pinned to the bed in front of her six-year-old son.
The gang grabbed thousands of pounds jewellery worth before fleeing the property in Ealing, west London.
Yesterday police praised Dr Waheed’s bravery after her evidence helped to convict four members of the prolific gang of professional burglars.
Beau Abououf, 27, Stephen Kelly, 22, Danny Logan, 21, and Daniel Hill, 22, were jailed for a combined total of 23 years.
The gang stole hundreds of thousands of poundsworth of gems, cash, designer clothing and electrical equipment in 16 break-ins during a seven-month crime spree – and used the funds to finance a lavish lifestyle.
Harrow Crown Court heard that in one burglary alone the gang escaped with a haul worth nearly £90,000.
Dr Waheed, who courageously decided to speak publicly about her ordeal, said: “It happened in our house at 8pm when everybody should feel safe.
“I heard some loud noises on the stairs – I was in my son’s room putting him to bed.
“I went downstairs to see if the front door was open, to see if my husband Stephen Kelly
£1.6m conman jailed
A PROPERTY fraudster who conned £1.6million out of vulnerable victims was jailed for 11 years yesterday – after a trial lasting 320 days.
Edwin McLaren, 52, was found guilty of 29 charges in May. The fraud trial, thought to be the longest in UK legal history, began at Glasgow’s High Court in September 2015.
McLaren secretly arranged for title deeds on his victims’ homes to be transferred to his associates. His wife Lorraine, 51, was found guilty of a fraudulent mortgage application and sentenced to two and a half years in jail. had come back, but the front door was still locked. It’s one of those cases where you hear a noise in the night and you never ever think it’s going to be anything.
“Everything from then on was slow motion. I saw the masked person. My son and I were in my bedroom.
“There were men grabbing me, pushing me, saying, ‘Give me the money’. My son was crying He is only six years old. He was saying, ‘Leave my mum alone. Just take the money and go’.
“Obviously time is a healer but the effects, in some ways, haven’t been diminished.”
The ordeal was captured on security cameras inside her home which showed the group entering the property through a patio door and then walking through the kitchen.
Kelly and Logan, from Camden, north-west London, were each handed six- year jail terms last week.
The pair were arrested in March 2016, after an alarm was set off at a property in Primrose Hill, north-west London.
The burglars had caused an estimated £15,000 worth of damage to the home after they broke in and stole a steel safe, which was found abandoned in the garden.
The pair were found to be linked to Abououf and Hill through mobile phone analysis.
Abououf, also of Camden, was jailed for eight years while Hill, of no fixed address, received a three-year sentence.
Police are still hunting other members of the gang.
cows kill millionaire
AN 80-year-old millionaire inventor was trampled to death by a herd of cows while walking in a field, police have said.
The pensioner, named locally as farm owner and former Oxford don Brian Bellhouse, was killed after the cattle became agitated and charged at him.
Emergency crews were called to the field in Guestling, East Sussex, on Monday, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The details were passed to the coroner.
Mr Bellhouse became a millionaire after inventing a needle-free injection device.