That’s self-preservation! Police hunt masked house raider soaked in Creosote after fence-painting pensioner fought back

• The raiders attacked the pensioners in Earlsdon, Coventry on March 27 
• One man targeted an elderly lady before trying to find the keys to her car 
• The second suspect confronted the woman’s husband who was fence painting
• The pensioner threw a tin of Creosote over the raider who fled empty handed  

A hero pensioner fought off masked robbers who barged into his home and attacked him and his wife – by soaking one of them with Creosote.

The two thugs targeted the elderly couple who were following government guidance to self-isolate to prevent the risk of catching coronavirus.

One of the raiders barged through the front door of their home on Clarendon Street in Earlsdon, Coventry, at 4.15pm, Friday, March 27 and threatened the elderly woman.

The raiders targeted the elderly couple on Clarendon Street in Earlsdon, Coventry on Friday, March 27

West Midlands Police have launched an appeal to catch the two raiders who terrorised the elderly couple at their home last month

He screamed at her and shoved her against the wall before storming upstairs hunting for their car keys.

The second robber then confronted the woman’s husband who was painting a fence in the garden and had rushed to help his wife.

The intruder punched him in the face but the quick-thinking pensioner hurled the tin of Creosote over the thug leaving him soaked in the sticky tar-like liquid.

Both burglars fled the scene empty-handed and police are now hunting the thugs and say one of them was covered head-to-toe in the distinctive black liquid

Detective Constable Kerrie Galloway, of West Midlands Police, said: ‘This attack happened during the afternoon when both elderly victims were adhering to the Covid-19 advice to self-isolate.

‘People have enough to worry about at the moment without being subjected to crime, especially in their own homes when they are listening to government advice.

‘I am appealing for anyone with information that could help us trace these attackers, to contact us as soon as possible.

‘We are also conducting house-to-house enquiries and asking anyone in the local area to check their CCTV cameras in case there is any footage of the men passing.’

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