home just after midnight yesterday: Don’t underestimate an older couple
with an attitude and a few good kitchen implements on hand.
A good thing for the intruder that Gladys, 59, didn’t find her rolling
pin. If she had, he might have had a few more bruises to add to those
he got being shoved down the stairs and pummelled by Gladys’ husband
Clifford, 66, and then struck repeatedly in the back by Gladys wielding
her metal tea kettle.
Here’s my favourite line:
Charged with break and enter, possession of stolen property under
$5,000, assault
causing bodily harm, theft under $5,000 and possession of break and
enter tools is one Douglas Halversen, 28, of Newmarket. He also will
have to live with the shame of (allegedly) robbing a senior citizen and
being beaten up by one and his wife.
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I live in Newmarket. It was front page news.