A CHELSEA woman heard banging on her front door and ran to fetch her husband before three men burst into their house, 4pm, Thursday 6 October.
Police said the men had jumped over the side fence to the Ella Grove property and smashed a glass panel in a sunroom door before reaching through and turning the knob on the deadlock to gain entry.
Her husband confronted the men – two in the kitchen and another in the foyer – who demanded his Holden car keys. In a scuffle that ended in the front garden, the husband was punched to the back of the head and received cuts and abrasions.
The men stole the keys from a hallway shelf and took the car as well as the man’s mobile phone. Initially, they drove north on Ella Grove but had to turn around in the dead-end street and pass by the house again.
The husband’s credit card was used at a Keysborough shopping centre and the Coles store at Carrum Downs before the card was cancelled.
Police canvassed all houses in the area and ask that anyone with information call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 00.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 12 October 2016
