Gran stabs attacker in the backside

TWO young women, who invaded the home of a Vryheid grandmother and attempted to rob her, learned that crime can be a real ‘pain in the backside’.

The feisty gran, who asked not to be named, tenaciously fought off her attackers and managed to stab them both in their rear ends as they were trying flee over her courtyard wall.

Police say this is the first time that women are involved in a crime of this nature in Vryheid, and are impressed at how bravely the gran defended herself.

Recounting the ordeal in a one-on-one with the Vryheid Herald, the gran said she had returned home from a week-long holiday in Durban on Friday afternoon, and had just ended a telephone call, when she heard a thump in her lounge.

When she went to investigate the noise, she walked in on one of the robbers.

“I recognised her! She had knocked on my door the previous week asking for a donation to further her studies, and I had given her R50. Then she returned to my house three days later to thank me, but she must have been checking out my house.

“The woman rushed towards me and pinned my arms to my side. Then she shouted, ‘Woza!’ and a second woman came out of the kitchen and grabbed me from behind.

“I asked them what they wanted, and they told me they wanted money. I told them we might find some money in the kitchen and if they would let go of me then we could go into the kitchen I would give them money, but the women refused to go into the kitchen, believing that I was trying to trick them into taking me to the panic button.”

Instead, the women dragged the gran into her bedroom. One of the women attempted to hold the gran on the floor, while the other reached in the wardrobe for anything they could use to bind the gran’s hands and feet.

It was then that the gran started to fight back.

“I thought about the audacity these women had to come into my home and pin me against my carpet… in MY bedroom, and I was just so angry. I was also afraid that if I gave them the opportunity, they may find something and hit me with it and seriously hurt me. So, I wrestled with the women. I even bit one of them. Thank God I still have all my own teeth, so I was able to bite her. My aim was to reach my panic button, which was actually in my bedroom.”

After a scuffle on the bedroom floor which seemed to last forever, the gran finally managed to reach the panic button.

“It makes a really loud noise that sounds almost like an air-raid. One of the women ran out of the bedroom. I managed to move fast enough to lock the other woman in my bedroom… But I knew she wouldn’t be there for long, because of the glass doors. I saw the woman, who escaped, climbing over the wall and I was just so angry.

I didn’t was to kill her but I didn’t want her to get away with what she had done to me. I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her on her bottom. The woman who was in my bedroom broke the glass door, hurting herself in the process. As she was climbing over the wall, I stabbed her in the bottom too.”

Despite the injuries to their ‘tushies’, both women still managed to get away before the security company arrived.

The gran admitted feeling saddened by the fact that she had fallen victim to a violent crime at the hands of women during a time when the entire world is rallying behind ‘16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children’.

“The woman, who I found in the lounge, was standing in front of a wall on which several photographs of my children and grandchildren are displayed. How can you stand there, with all those innocent faces smiling down at you, and then plan an attack on their mother and grandmother? The thought makes me sick.”

The gran admitted that she might not have had the courage to fight back had the attackers been men, but says she won’t let the fear of criminals drive her from her home of 52 years.

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