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Fair play to this bloke.....
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24-01-2008 3:15pm#1.....a 51 year bloke in Sligo giving the bateings to 3 really violent robbers in his gaff in London after they held a knife to his kid's throat!!!! And all while he was in the nip. He claims he's never even used a weapon befopre, but I'm suspicious about how he says "They were all padded up, forensically aware" lol.......
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/stabbed-dad-saves-daughter-1272644.htmlirish independent wrote:A millionaire businessman from Sligo has told a British court how he fought off three armed burglars after they held a knife to his daughter's throat.
Bernard Dwyer (51) said he thought he would be killed and "would rather die like a man than a dog" defending his family.
Despite being stabbed three times, he wrestled a gun from one attacker before chasing the masked raiders from his home.
The court heard how they entered Mr Dwyer's luxury home in Vine Lane, Uxbridge, west London, a day after battering to death restaurant owner Helen Chung. Mr Dwyer, who grew up in Co Sligo, was sleeping, as were his daughter Aisling (now 14) and son Danny (20).
"I heard people running up the stairs and Aisling screaming 'Dad'. I had never heard screaming like that before. I knew something was clearly wrong. I was totally disorientated. I thought the roof had collapsed."
Naked and without his glasses, Mr Dwyer told jurors he jumped from his bed and ran towards his daughter's room but was met by the robbers.
"There were three guys coming towards me," he said, "All masked, all covered with balaclavas, gloves, padded out, forensically aware.
"I was in a bit of a daze. It was very surreal. One man was holding a gun, waving it about, screaming menacingly.
"The man with the gun said 'Get on the f****ing floor, get on the f****ing floor you bastard, we'll f****ing kill you' so I obliged."
Mr Dwyer told the court how the robbers demanded to know how much money was in the house and where the safe was.
But when he agreed to take them to the hidden room in his basement, and reached for his trousers, the robbers attacked, one using a Kung-fu style knuckle-duster. "I have seen things on television and I have seen violent stuff but I have never seen this level of violence, not even on those movies of Vietnam. I was being compliant and they were smashing and bashing me."
Mr Dwyer was knocked unconscious for a few minutes but became "invigorated" when he came round.
And fear turned to anger when one robber held a knife to the throat of 13-year-old Aisling and threatened "I am going to cut your f****ing daughter".
"I very quickly and very wisely assessed the situation," said Mr Dwyer. "These bastards were out of control. We were going to die anyway, that's what I thought.
"I thought If I am going to die then I would rather die like a man than a dog.
"The guy was standing over me with the gun and I thought if I can move the gun with my arm and make the bullet go into the wall I could come up and bash him."
He pushed the weapon away before striking his attacker.
Mr Dwyer said: "Then the guy with the knife came over and plunges it in my head three times. The man with the gun ran off."
But the others tried to push back into the bedroom.
"So we had another bout of fisticuffs," said Mr Dwyer.
"But this time I'm in charge of this battle. I have never used a weapon in my life and it was a great feeling. I grabbed the gun and bashed it across the knuckle-duster guy."
The gang fled in a stolen car.
Michael Atkins (25) and brother Dean (26) are accused of the attack on November 6, 2006.
It is claimed they murdered Mrs Chung the previous night after she refused to reveal the hiding place of her £218,000 life savings.
The trial continues.
I'd like to think I'd do the same in his situation, but I'd defo lash on a pair of boxers first
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The burglars should be marched out into a desolate wasteland, made to dig their own graves then be machinegunned into them.
I'd say the mad sligo ****er was about to do that, til the cops arrived and arrested them for their own safety
I won't be doing one of me drunken nik-naks on his gaff anytime soon!0 -
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