A presidential spokeswoman said the 27-year-old intruder had not gained entry to the private quarters of Mr. Mbeki, who was away when the man broke in last Friday.
On the night before Palm Sunday twenty-five yeago ago, a juvenile murdered my sister Nancy Bishop Langert, her husband Richard and their unborn child (Nancy was pregnant when a 16-year-old intruder shot them to death in their home).
John Yettaw, the 53-year-old American intruder, was charged with trespassing and is also detained there.
After 26-year-old Brent Mede tried to enter a home without permission, the homeowner, 44-year-old Jack Medina, shot the intruder in the leg.
One 81-year-old scared off an intruder by firing a gun.
The Hawks were one of he worst teams in the league, and Mutombo, sometimes understandably dispirited, continued to do what he does as well or better than anyone else in basketball: rebound, block shots and frighten opponents away from the basket the way a junkyard dog keeps intruders from old hubcaps.
An 86-year-old woman fought off an intruder armed with a knife who broke into her home in South Jamaica, Queens, on Sunday morning, crept into her bedroom and apparently was going to smother her, the police and family members said.
A 77-year-old Missoula, Mont., homeowner shot an intruder in the torso early Sunday.
Pistorius, 26, claims he shot the 29-year-old model by accident, assuming an intruder had entered his home on 14 February.
And in 2013, we wrote about a 92-year-old grandmother who kicked a home intruder in the face, teaching him you definitely don't mess with Texas. .
It is a situation that makes the original wall look like the intruder, a piece of Disneyfied old London copied and pasted from elsewhere.
