Masked burglar breaks into OAP’s house in terrifying daylight raid

A BRAZEN criminal broke into a pensioner’s house in broad daylight and sped away in the family car as the OAP’s terrified wife looked on.

The masked raider targeted the home of Helen and Charlie Hood at around 10.40am on Wednesday.

Home CCTV f ootage shows the man entering the Union Terrace property by climbing over the garden wall, then getting out of a bedroom window, s c al i ng t he roof and jumping down around 10 feet on to a paved area.

At this point he was spotted by Helen, who saw him running to the Toyota Yaris parked in the driveway, unlocking the car with keys he’d stolen from the hallway and driving off “erratically”.

“I was stunned and shouted ‘stop’ at him,” said Helen, a 61-year-old carer.

“He reversed out and drove away, very erratically. I called the police i mmediately. We discovered he’d been in the bedrooms.

“He’d been through my wardrobe and bedside table. The Toyota car keys had been taken from the hallway.”

The raider also took the keys to a Motability car belonging to Charlie, a 70-year-old retiree.

The incident has left her shaken and feeling unsafe in her own home.

This car is a blue Toyota Yaris hybrid, registration number ST65 ZFG.

Officers are looking for a man described as white, in his early 30s, slim build with short dark hair, who was wearing a dark jacket with a peak on the hood, a camouflage patterned hooded top underneath, dark Under Armour jogging bottoms, black Nike Airmax trainers with white s o l e s , a n d wa s a l s o carrying a khaki T-shirt.

Anyone with any information is asked call 101 or speak with any police officer.