Bizarre moment stunningly calm woman confronts an intruder who broke into her home
A woman has filmed the terrifying moment she was arrested in her home and confronted by an alleged intruder.
Flora Socratous took action after waking up around 6am on Sunday to find the unwanted visitor in her inner-city Melbourne home.
She found him in the kitchen and started filming after he ran into the bathroom.
The video showed the male alleged intruder wearing a green sweater, hat and mask and running down the hallway with a backpack as he tried to flee through the front door as Ms Socratous gave chase.
“How did you get to my house?” she shouted.
The alleged intruder was unable to unlock the screen door.
“What’s in your bag?” Mrs. Socratous shouted repeatedly.
He eventually entered a bedroom, where he climbed out of the same window he used to break into the house.
Flora Socratous admits she was ‘stupid’ to confront and chase the intruder
The homeowner claimed that the intruder (pictured in the bathroom) asked her to stop filming
The alleged intruder then climbed over a side fence and fled the scene.
Nothing was stolen from the home.
One day, a shocked Mrs. Socratous has no idea how the intruder broke into the Windsor estate her family has called home for fifty years.
It is the first time their house has been broken into.
“He managed to break the (window) latch. I have no idea how he managed to loosen the pin,” Ms Socratous said. Seven news.
‘He stepped in. I wasn’t sure if anyone else was in the house, so when I got up he was already in the kitchen.”
The alleged intruder was unfazed by being filmed and tried to push the homeowner out of the way as he tried to flee and ran into the bathroom.
“He said, ‘Don’t record me,’ and then he lost it,” Ms. Socratous recalled.
“You think it would never happen to you, but it can happen.”
She admitted she was “foolish” to chase him without knowing if he was armed.
Ms Socratous now plans to install a security alarm system.
‘I live in fear. Is it going to happen again?’ she said.
The alleged intruder (pictured) went into a bedroom before climbing out of the window. He then climbed over a fence and fled
A homeowner has captured the terrifying moment she encountered an alleged intruder in her home on camera. The alleged intruder is pictured
The alleged intruder is still on the run.
Victoria Police are investigating the burglary.
“Police are investigating an aggravated burglary that occurred in Upton Road, Windsor,” a spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Officers were told that a resident approached a man in his home around 6 a.m. on January 5.’
‘The man jumped out of the window and ran away. Fortunately, no one was injured and nothing was stolen.”
“The investigation into the incident is ongoing.”
Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers.
The alleged intruder’s face can be seen as he climbed the fence to escape
The burglary comes after the Police Association Victoria unleashed the Victorian government last week in the wake of an “explosion of home burglaries” in Melbourne.
The union said residents were “forced to use their own private security” to patrol their neighborhoods and ward off potential trespassers.
“This is an indictment of the government’s failure to adequately resource our police force,” the statement said.
The union added that crime is so high because the police “have 1,000 vacancies, more than 900 police officers are unemployed due to injuries and illness and 43 police stations are closing.”
“The result we are now seeing is neighborhoods banding together to fund their own private security, and not for the first time,” the union added.
“This is simply unacceptable.”
The union also alleged that the state government is ‘sitting on their hands’ instead of finding a solution.
It called on the government to “come to the table and negotiate fair pay” to attract new recruits and halt the “exodus of experienced police officers”.