Western Australia Police are searching for two immigrant home invaders who threatened an elderly man with machetes during a terrifying burglary in Perth
Grandfather Paul Doyle, 78, said he feared he was going to have his head chopped off by the intruders, who both had “tanned skin” and foreign accents, after they broke into his home in Forestfield on June 24.
The men, who were dressed in black and wearing gloves and balaclavas, also damaged the engine of Mr Doyle’s speedway race car in his garage, making him suspect it was a targeted attack.
Mr Doyle was asleep when the men stormed inside, and was then forced out of his bedroom and into the living room where one man held a “big silver machete” about six inches from his head and demanded cash.
“I honest thought it was the end of the time for me,” he told Nine News.
“I’m thinking, you know, is that going to go through me, or are they going to chop me up?”
The intruders then fled with Mr Doyle’s coin collection, cash from his wallet, and alcohol, but not before one of them spent about half an hour inside his backyard shed pouring over his custom-made car, causing about $10,000 in damage.
“I was definitely targeted, and the car was definitely targeted,” he said.
Detective First Class Constable Rebecka Phipps said the motivation for the attack was still being investigated, and that “significant” resources were being put into catching the offenders.
“This is a heinous crime against a vulnerable member of the community,” she said.
“People should feel safe within their own home and should not have to live in fear that these kinds of attacks will take place.”
Mr Doyle said he hoped police “put them in jail for 100 years”.
Header image: Left, right, Mr Doyle at his home.
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