Brave five-year-old rescues family
Published: May 6, 2008
A boy, 5, stayed calm and untied his parents and brother after a terrifying home invastion by a gun-toting masked man in Melbourne’s outer northern suburbs.
The boy was asleep when a balaclava-clad intruder broke into the house at Plumpton, on the northern metropolitan fringe, about 1am this morning.
The intruder attacked the boy’s parents as they slept, pistol-whipping the father before tying the pair up.
The burglar also tied up the couple’s other child, a 16 year-old boy, before stealing cash and fleeing the property.
The young boy woke to cries for help from his family and rushed to their aid.
The terrified family contacted police.
Police congratulated the boy on his composure.
“He managed to untie them,” Detective Sergeant Rod Arthur said.
“It was very well done and he was very level-headed.”
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