Thugs steal Ron's holiday dream

June 20, 2010

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ALL Ron Spencer wanted was a trip "up north" to feel the warm sun on his skin - but his holiday dreams were shattered by heartless bandits who tied him up, brutally bashed him and stole his holiday savings.

The Huntfield Heights pensioner had spent months saving up $4000 in a plastic zip lock bag for a trip to Queensland with his mate, simply because he "missed walking around in shorts".

But on Tuesday, two thugs forced their way into the 60-year-old's unit and attacked him, "stomping" on his head before binding his legs with electrical cord and his hands with duct tape and bashing him with a hammer.

"I got a boot to the face as soon as I opened the door and that took me straight over the couch," Mr Spencer told the Sunday Mail.

"I fell on the floor ... and they started booting the hell out of me, both of them.

"They just stomped on my head until I couldn't move, stomped on me until I was absolutely battered.

Burglars lock woman in cupboard, ransack house

• PerthNow June 16, 2010

A WOMAN was barricaded in a cupboard by two armed men who ransacked her house during a terrifying home invasion yesterday.

The 51-year-old was in the garage at her Mt Nasura home at about 12.30pm when she was forced inside the property by the men, who were believed to armed with a pistol.

Police say the men shut the woman inside a cupboard under a set of stairs before ransacking the house and stealing her car.

The woman was freed by her son when he came home from school several hours later.

Her car was later found in Brumby Place in Armadale, where police arrested a 38-year-old man and charged him with burglary, deprivation of liberty, robbery and stealing a motor vehicle.