Pietermaritzburg - A heroic teenager bravely fought off a screwdriver-wielding attacker who tried to break into a Belfort home on Tuesday afternoon.
In the tussle, the robber allegedly wounded the 16-year-old more than a dozen times until he was beaten off.
Community members and police rallied together in a manhunt for the intruder — who had also snatched a handbag from a neighbour’s home while in flight — and eventually caught the man at the Site 11 informal settlement near Otto’s Bluff.
Speaking to The Witness on Wednesday, Seagull Road resident Keaton Odayan, who was alone in the house at the time, said he was relaxing in his bedroom when he heard a strange tapping noise on the bathroom window.
With his dog barking outside, Keaton entered the bathroom to find a man halfway through the window.
“When he saw me, his foot got stuck on the window sill and he fell into the bathtub. He stood up with a screwdriver in one hand and a packet in the other. I turned around and ran into my room,” Keaton said.
