ORDEAL OF JOHN, ROBBED AS HE SLEPT
I struggle to sleep now with the worry they will
come back
John holds his great-granddaughter Bonnie
What they have done to the great-granddad is
disgusting
A FRAIL pensioner robbed of the cash he was saving to help his family pay for his funeral said last night: “I don’t feel safe in my home any more.”
John Jordan, 83, who has heart failure and lung disease, was hooked up to an oxygen machine and sleeping when the callous raiders broke in.
The great-grandad woke up to find his window had been forced open and the £1,500 he had painstakingly saved to spare his family the burden of his funeral costs was gone.
The burglars had also taken the retired painter and decorator’s CCTV camera to cover their tracks.
Heartbroken John told the Sunday People: “I just don’t want to be in this house any more. I don’t feel safe and this makes me angry.
“I struggle to sleep at night worrying they will come back. I should not have to feel like that living in my own home. I will not be keeping money in the house any more. But I will never have that type of money again.
“It took me a really long time to save and I felt at ease knowing I had that money there because it really would have helped my family when I am gone.
“My family now have to help with everything.”
His granddaughter Chloe-ann Preedy, 20, added: “He is very upset. This is an old, frail man and he’s been hugely affected by this. It has really hit him hard.
Selfless
“What they have done is absolutely disgusting. They are the lowest of the low. He is particularly upset as he hoped to save the money for his funeral and to help the family.
“He is just old-fashioned like that. He is very selfless and is the most generous man.”
John lives mostly in his living room because of his health conditions and his daughter, Jeanette Preedy, visits him