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| An 82-year-old woman has described how she beat off two burglars with a floor brush after they broke into her east Belfast home. | |
| Maisie Chapman was sleeping at her Oberon Street home on Saturday afternoon. | |
| She awoke to find a stranger in her hallway and a second man upstairs ransacking her bedroom. | |
| "I have a brush behind the door... I lifted it and gave them a whack," Mrs Chapman said. | |
| Earlier, the stranger in the hall claimed he was a policeman. But he had no identity card. | |
| Mrs Chapman went upstairs to where the second man was ransacking her bedroom. | |
| "I started to scream when he pushed me on to the bed and he told me to stop," she said. | |
| "But I didn't stop and I just kept screaming. Then he got his two hands and held them over my mouth and I couldn't breathe. But I got one of my arms free and I pushed him and I got free. | |
| "I hobbled down the stairs and went over to my neighbours to get the police." | |
| The men left the house empty handed. Mrs Chapman, a widow, was shaken by her ordeal. | |
| But she has lived in her home for more than 50 years and she said she had no intention of leaving it. |