Geelong Independent - 30th October 2015

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Friday, 30 October, 2015

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SHAKEN: John, who declined to be identified, questions whether his struggle with would-be burglars was worth the risk. Picture: REG RYAN

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Burglar struggle shocks resident By ALANA MITCHELSON A HIGHTON man has endured a heartracing struggle with three teenagers after catching them breaking into his garage. “The adrenalin’s come down now a bit but I’m a bit shaken up,” he told the Independent. John, who wanted his surname withheld, said he was too shaken to attend

work after the incident on Wednesday morning. The teens now face court on a series of charges related to offences in Highton and Leopold. John said he was on his usual earlymorning walk around his court when an unfamiliar car passed him just before 6am. “I thought ‘that doesn’t look right’.”

John said the teens had failed to notice him before pulling up in front of his driveway. He watched as they began breaking into his garage. John said he ran toward the group, cornering two in the driveway. “I yelled ‘get out of there’ and ‘leave now’.” The third teen remained in the car as

John instinctively tried grabbing the keys, he said. “There was a struggle. Pulling backward and forward, pushing them away with one hand and grabbing the keys with the other – I’ve got a couple of scratches from that – and then I tossed (the keys) out of reach into some long grass.” Continued page 4

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