Pet owner fights off masked gang
A DOG owner fought off three men who tried to barge into his house to steal his pets.
Ryan Hesford, 33, was home alone with his three pooches when the doorbell started to ring persistently.
When the callers refused to connect to his video and sound-recording bell system, Ryan opened the door to find two of them wearing masks.
He said: “The whole thing happened in seconds from when I opened my front door.
“I have two shih tzus and a Pomeranian, which believe are massive on the hit list of dogs going missing at the moment.”
The bell’s footage shows a man with a neck tattoo saying: “Parcel for Gary?”
As Ryan says there is no
Gary at that address, the man lunges at him – with a masked accomplice also piling into the scuffle.
Ryan added: “I could tell as soon as I opened the door something wasn’t right. He seemed really agitated on his feet, he was shifting from left to right.
“I tried to slam the door on him as he came for me, but he and the other two pushed back and I’ve been left with a big black eye.
“Two of them did also have metal bars, which I think is how I’ve got the big cut and bruise that have been left on my right arm.
“All I could think was that I needed to get them away from my house.
“I managed to wrestle two of them out the front, literally 16
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and then I jumped over the wall and knocked on my neighbour’s window, and they came out to help me.
“That’s when all three of them ran off down the road.”
Property manager Ryan, of Doncaster, South Yorks, has shared the footage with police.
It was only when he played it back, he realised one man had actually got inside but apparently panicked and left again.