An old couple had a nightmarish experience recently when they were asleep in the ground floor of their home at Ilford. When they woke up they found two thugs standing over their bed and threatening them with a knife.
The couple were identified as Yogarany Jeevaratnam and her husband Murugesu, both 58.
One man put his foot on the woman’s chest, preventing her from getting up, while the other stood over her husband and held a knife to his throat.
The first man took out a pair of pliers and cut the woman’s necklace off, then indicated for her to hand over her earrings and ring, which she did.
The couple’s 39-year-old daughter Shobana Kajnthiran said the thugs had used a screwdriver to break into the house at South Park Drive, Ilford, last Monday. The burglars decamped with 2,000 pounds in jewellery.
The couple’s 20-year-old pregnant granddaughter Kansiga Sharifullah phoned the police at 2.57am.
No arrests have been made and police are on the look-out for the masked men.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Redbridge CID on 0208 345 1609.
