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Don't fuck with the elderly
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6613225.ece
A pensioner “subdued” a drunken burglar by giving him a black eye and a bloody lip.
Frank Corti, 72, a former soldier, said that he had felt compelled to defend himself and his wife against his neighbour Gregory McCalium, who broke
into his home in Botley, Oxford, armed with a knife.
McCalium was still drunk from an all-night party when he went into the Cortis’ house at 8am on August 19 last year. He threatened Mr Corti with a
knife but the former featherweight boxer dodged it, punching McCalium twice in the face before pinning him to a wall.
McCalium, 24, was jailed for four and a half years on Monday after a jury at Oxford Crown Court found him guilty of aggravated burglary following a
trial in March.
Mr Corti had told the court that the two men had an ongoing dispute over noise and that he had called the police out an hour and a half before the
burglary after finding McCalium banging on the front door.
Mr Corti, a 5ft 5ins former Royal Engineer who served during the Suez crisis, said: “He was holding a knife which looked more like a six-bladed
knuckle duster. He made a slashing movement at me but I dodged it by stepping back and he missed.
“As I saw it, it was a matter of do or die. Fortunately the element of surprise was with me, so I adjusted my position and hit him with my right hand.
It was just below the eye.
“I did not knock him out, but he was stunned. I heard the knife drop. We grappled. I was trying to drag him out of the back door. We both fell to the
floor. I had to subdue him by punching him, which I did not take a great deal of pleasure in.”
Detective Constable Jon Shaw, of Thames Valley Police, said: “This was a terrifying situation and McCalium must now pay for his actions.”
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