Two women tied up during Claxton Bay home invasion

SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

Two women were tied up and threat­ened af­ter ban­dits broke in­to their Clax­ton Bay home ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

The vic­tims, aged 36 and 72, were asleep in sep­a­rate bed­rooms around 2:30 a.m. when the younger woman was awak­ened by an in­trud­er who cov­ered her mouth and held her down.

Po­lice said one of the men or­dered her to re­main qui­et, warn­ing: "Don't move or else I will kill she."

The as­sailants, who were dressed in dark cloth­ing and wore face masks and gloves, then took the women to the el­der­ly woman's bed­room, where they were tied to a bed with tie straps.

The in­trud­ers locked the bed­room door and left them there.

The younger woman even­tu­al­ly man­aged to free her­self and, up­on check­ing the house, dis­cov­ered it had been ran­sacked.

A quan­ti­ty of jew­ellery, cash and cel­lu­lar phones was stolen.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve the ban­dits gained en­try by re­mov­ing lou­vre panes from a win­dow.

Of­fi­cers of the St Mar­garet's Po­lice Sta­tion are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.