Battered Iris, 90, is ‘left for dead’ in raid

DETECTIVES say a burglar who beat a defenceless 90-year-old widow in her bed “left her for dead”.

Officers spoke out after Iris Warren’s son Jeffrey and sister Lesley Tranter released horrifying images of her injuries.

The retired bank worker was battered when the thug broke in as she slept in her £650,000 home in a leafy north-west London suburb.

Last seen buying her paper last Saturday and discovered by Jeffrey on Monday lunchtime, it is possible she lay injured for two days.

She is now believed to be out of danger but remains in hospital after being bludgeoned on the head, body and legs.

Mrs Warren told officers she woke up in the early hours, as an intruder shone a torch in her face.

She recalls only being struck in the face and twice on the back of her head with an “instrument”.

After the brutal attack the burglar fled the terraced house in Kingsbury, taking cash.

Sickened

Police have so far been unable to identify a suspect.

As the photographs were published yesterday, Jeffrey, 60, said: “We are shocked and appalled at the violence.

“It has left us feeling stunned and sickened.

“We appeal for anyone with information that could assist police in their investigation to come forward.

“The person responsible must be brought to justice.”

Det Insp Saj Hussain, leading the inquiry, added: “I’m not sure how she actually survived. In my opinion, the way the attack took place, someone must have left her for dead.

“There was blood all round the house – it was horrific on such a vulnerable lady.

“She wasn’t trying to resist, she was merely sleeping.”

Arthur Waszkiewicz was last night charged with robbery and the manslaughter of 100-year-old Zofija Kaczan, who died days after her neck was broken in a mugging in Derby on May 28.

Waszkiewicz, 39, of Derby, will appear at Southern Derbyshire magistrates court in the city today.