‘I don’t feel safe – when I close my eyes I see thief’s face’

A DISABLED Dundee pensioner has spoken of her terror after a thief broke into her bedroom, climbed on top of her and told her he had Aids.

Yvonne Cullen was asleep in her sheltered housing flat when the intruder climbed i n a window, threatened her and then made off with a haul of valuables.

The 73-year-old, pictured, said she was left “frozen” as t he man straddled her on her bed and demanded she tell him her bank pin, before making taking an iPad, two mobile phones, bank cards and jewellery.

Police are continuing to investigate the incident, which happened in the early hours of June 4 at Ancrum Place.

It happened j ust a day after Yvonne’s 84-year-old neighbour, Thomas Glancy, was targeted in a similar manner.

Mr Glancy had £400 stolen, but never woke up while the thief was in his home.

Yvonne, a retired taxi driver, said: “I had been at the casino and got a lift home about midnight and was in bed about 1am.

“All of a sudden I became aware of somebody in the house. The bedroom leads into the living room and the door was shut. I heard the door opening and shouted, ‘Who’s that?’

“There was no answer, but then the next thing he was in the room, sat on my chest in my bed and asked me for my bank card and pin. His face was just a few inches from mine and he said to me, ‘I have Aids’.

“I could feel his breath on me, it was terrifying. He straddled me with his legs on my ribs and grabbed my wrists. He was wearing gloves.

“All sorts of things go through your head. You don’t know if they’ll attack you or rape you or what.”

Yvonne, who has four children and 11 grandchildren, has diabetes, arthritis and fibromyalgia. She uses a mobility scooter, which was plugged in through the kitchen window which the man had climbed through to get into her house.

Yvonne said he talked to her constantly throughout the raid, telling her he was from Glasgow and was a drug addict.

She said: “He said to me, ‘ Old people all have money, I know they do’.

“I told him I had nothing. Thankfully I hadn’t won anything at the casino. When he was on top of me he was feeling around my neck