WHY ME? ASKS MOLLY
The brave Limavady pensioner robbed by a five-strong gang on Sunday night wants to meet the men behind the balaclavas to ask them why they targeted her.
Plucky Molly Hunter was robbed in her Roe Mill Road home around 7.30pm, just minutes after family she had enjoyed the day with dropped her off home. Her nightmare began as was about to “settle down” for the evening with a cup of tea to watch television.
When Molly saw the first two attackers casually stroll into her living room, after breaking down her front door, she thought it might have been a prank. But when another three masked men followed in single file, calmly and quietly, ‘I thought, this is no joke Molly,’ she told the Journal yesterday.
Four of the men ransacked her bedroom while the fifth robber stood silently facing her.
“I asked him, ‘What do you want with me? I have nothing for you’, but he just stood there.”
As the gang trashed Molly’s bedroom and handbag, the popular pensioner saw the front door was open.
“I could see an escape route and I said, ‘There’s my friend coming.’ The man went into his friends and I got my stick and got to the front door and let out a big yell”, but Molly’s screams went unheard.
The fifth man shouted at her, in a strong English accent, “Come in. What are you doing?”
Molly said: “Well my legs turned to water and I fell. I thought he was going to hit me but he was a gentleman because he didn’t hit me. I tried to get up, but I fell again. He trailed me into the sitting room and I cried, ‘Don’t let me lie here on the floor!”
The attacker grabbed Molly by her shoulders and “threw me onto the couch”.
Within seconds, the attackers fled through the back door with a substantial sum of money. Molly crawled to the back door, locked it and called the police and then her niece.
Thought the worst
“It all happened so quickly,” recalled Molly. “They did it so easy and, you know, they didn’t look like men looking for money. They came in so easy. When I saw the last three men I thought the worst. They could have killed me.”
Comforted by a close knit family, a tearful Molly said she will not give in to the attackers and is determined to return to her home of 20 years.
“It was an awful shock but I’ll get over it. I’m sorry for them. I’ll speak to those fellas and shake their hands and ask them, ‘Why did you this to me, an old pensioner?’”
Family members say their forgiving aunt has told them to “pray for the gang as they are not bad people”.
They have joined the appeal in urging anyone with information to give it to the police immediately.
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