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ISSUE 816 MAY 29 2006
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“I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME” Student threatened with a knife in her own house for £14 By Perri Lewis News Editor A CARDIFF STUDENT was threatened at knifepoint last weekend when an intruder broke into her house and demanded money. The knife-wielding man pounced on the third-year Sociology student in her Harriet Street house around 10am on May 21. The 23-year-old victim said: “I thought he was going to kill me. “I genuinely thought that I was
going to die.” The man, who is said to be in his late teens or early 20s, pointed the knife at her face and told her not to scream. “All I want is your money,” he said. She led him to her ground-floor bedroom, but panicked when she realised that she only had £14 in her room. “At first I could only find £4, and I panicked. “Then I found a tenner and told him that it was all that I had.” The victim was woken around 9.45am by the sound of her bed-
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room door closing. She got up and headed to the kitchen, but was confronted by the man brandishing a knife. “He was hiding, so he must have been waiting for one of us to come downstairs,” she said. It is not known whether the intruder brought the knife into the house with him, or whether he took one from the girls’ kitchen. “We think that one of our knives might be missing, but I didn’t recognise it when he had it in his hand,” said the victim. “We just can’t tell whether or
not it was one of ours.” The house has been forensically examined, but the police are still unsure of how the man got in. PC Bob Keohane, Cardiff’s student liaison officer, said: “It is assumed that he came in through the back door, which was either left open or had a faulty lock. “There was no sign of a forced entry.” “I urge all students to secure doors and windows at all times to prevent this kind of thing from
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