Appeal after Smith's Wood pensioner is targeted in his own home

POLICE are hunting three men who robbed an 89-year-old man in his own home over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The pensioner had been sound asleep when the robbers had smashed their way through his patio doors in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday).
His family said that the hooded trio had ransacked the downstairs of the property, before entering the man's bedroom, holding a pillow over his face and demanding money.
They fled the Smith's Wood address with his watch, a quantity of cash and jewellery which had belonged to the pensioner's late wife. The victim was uninjured but badly shaken by the ordeal, which happened at around 2am.
In an appeal on Facebook, the man's granddaughter described the culprits as "disgusting scumbags" and urged anyone with information about the break-in or who believes they may have been offered the stolen items to contact officers.
If you can help detectives with their inquiries please call 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.