A defenceless woman was forced to pretend she was asleep as an violent teenager climbed through her bedroom window to rob her house.
The victim was frozen with fear in her bed as then-17-year-old Bailey Esmonde, armed with a dumbbell handle, raided through her drawers and went through her kitchen cupboards, taking the £75 she had budgeted to pay her rent.
However, when Esmonde, now 18, was in the kitchen, the woman gallantly alerted her son, who was outside the ground floor flat smoking and came inside to apprehend the burglar before officers arrived and arrested him.
