He got really angry and started to hit me
ONE victim of the Night Watcher feared she would be raped and killed after he ambushed her at her £3.5million home.
Susan Morris was at her computer when the burglar pounced on her, yelling: ‘I want the jewellery, take me to the safe.’
The 61-year-old suffered a broken jaw and lost a tooth as he beat her into submission, binding her hands with cable ties.
Speaking last night, Mrs Morris said she believed he was professionally trained and knew how hard to hit her without knocking her out.
‘All I wanted to do is get him out of the house as quickly as possible, give him what he wanted and get him out,’ she said.
‘So I took him to the jewellery, gave him the jewellery but he said to me “get on the floor”. I thought he was going to rape me, I was very, very frightened.
‘I gave him a lot of jewellery from the safe and I said to him “You have got very valuable stuff there, now get out”.
‘But he wasn’t happy with that, he asked for more jewellery, I gave him some more jewellery and he then wanted more jewellery, and this is when he really got angry and started to hit me.
‘He hit me very hard on my face, not enough to knock me out, he knew exactly how hard to hit me, he hit me three times on my face, it was very painful.
‘He got very angry as he was hitting me. I couldn’t get one ring and bracelet off and I thought he was going to cut my finger off to get them. I was really frightened.
‘One point when he was hitting me, with the gun pointing at me, at that moment I did actually think, this is it, it’s all over.’
She said he spoke well, without an accent, and appeared methodical and intelligent.
Describing the raid last November in Kingswood, Surrey, she added: ‘It all happened incredibly quickly, it is still very vivid though in my mind.’
Her husband Stephen, who is a company director, arrived home to find her hiding in a bedroom still with her wrists tied.
He said: ‘It was pretty horrid and then you start feeling guilty that you weren’t there, it might have been a different outcome.’