Fly spray, knife used on intruder

Press, 25 February 1987, Page 8

Fly spray, knife used on intruder

An intruder was repelled with a blast of fly spray in the face and then hit by a knife thrown by a woman who had confronted him in her Sydenham house yesterday.

The man fled with nothing but a cut face after earlier undoing the bolts surrounding the front door — which was already unlocked.

The woman had unlocked the door on Monday night to put her cat out, said a police spokesman.

She was confronted by the man when she emerged from a shower about 5.30 a.m. and was

held against the hallway wall.

The intruder asked “Where is it?” and in the ensuing struggle the woman was able to break free, grab the flyspray, and throw the knife, said the spokesman.

It was not known what the intruder wanted, he said.

The man fled on a motor-cycle from the Humbolt Street house. The woman was not hurt. The intruder was described as European, 177 cm (sft lOin) tall, and wearing a yellow parka, blue jeans, black gloves, and a white crash helmet