Louisa Row family terrorised by bandits

DAWN Blackman and her family of Lot 1 Louisa Row were, on Friday morning, awakened from their slumber by gun butts and shouting.

According to information reaching the Chronicle, at approximately 02:45 hrs Friday morning, Dawn felt a blow on her head; when she opened her eyes, she noticed that two men were in her bedroom, one with a gun and the other holding a knife.
The distraught woman later related to the Chronicle that the men disguised their identity to some extent as one had a cap pulled down in his face, while the other had a jersey tied around his face.
Blackman explained too that while she thought that the two men were the only ones in the house, there were other men downstairs “cleaning out” the house of its appliances and other items which the woman and her husband usually sell on a retail basis.
The woman said that while one of the bandits showed some amount of compassion, the other one who was upstairs with herself and her husband kept cranking a gun and threatening to shoot.
At the Louisa Row address, the woman operates a retail business where she sells electronics, clothes and other items. Blackman told this newspaper that she believed the men might have had her home under surveillance on Thursday evening.
A police press statement said that a rural constable was shot to the hand after he attempted to confront the men who had robbed the household and who were making good their escape with a television.
According to the report, in an attempt to apprehend the men, the rural constable was shot and injured to his left hand by one of the men who managed to escape.
He was admitted to hospital for treatment.

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