An 87-year-old woman in Alice Springs has had her home invaded and one of her teeth broken with a golf club, after she was targeted by thieves for the second time in a week.
Police are seeking two people who broke into the woman’s home in East Side about 10:45pm on Friday and attacked her.
The elderly woman was in bed when the two intruders climbed in a window and began rummaging around her home, NT Police Duty Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said.
“She woke up, she challenged them, and then she was hit in the face with a golf stick,” Ms Jorgensen said.
“It broke one her front teeth. They got away.”
She said the thieves appear to have stolen some beer, handbags and knives from the woman’s kitchen.
“It’s an awful story — it’s very hard to comprehend how people could be so callous, especially to an 87-year-old,” Ms Jorgensen said.
The woman’s home was broken into on the previous Friday night as well.
New police statistics released yesterday in the NT showed the number of house break-ins in the town dropped by 28 per cent last year, while commercial break-ins rose by 34 per cent.
This post originally appeared on ABC News.
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