My home is my castle: Naked Iragi war veteran confronts thieves trying to steal his new car

Lance Corporal Wayne O'Mahoney was sleeping when three masked crooks kicked in the front door of his Salford house and came inside at around 6am.

After hearing the noise the 47-year-old, who served in Iraq, confronted the robbers and began wrestling with one but another managed to steal the keys to his new Seat Leon.

After fumbling with the central locking the thief managed to get inside but Wayne wasn't having any of it and grabbed a crowbar from his tool set and smashed the window of his own car to grab the would be criminal.

Naturally all the commotion woke up the street, but with the desperate thief managing to flee Wayne looked down to see he'd forgotten to cover up.

'I was curled up asleep and I heard the banging. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, explained the now army reservist at the103 Regiment Royal Artillery, based at Belle Vue.

'You couldn't print what was going through my mind. My home is my castle and you can't just intrude and expect to get away with it,

'I jumped down the stairs and managed to grab one of them. The other two ran off and the one I was with managed to get the car keys and get in the car,

'He slid around to the passenger seat and I ran round the car. I'm there now and he keeps sliding across the car, driver to passenger seat, passenger to driver and then he was away,

'The neighbours were all out then, the adrenaline just dropped off and then I looked down and realised I had no clothes on.'


/Metro.co.uk/