Former prisoner of war (96) attacked by burglars
Detectives are hunting two burglars who attacked a 96-year-old former prisoner of war in his own home.
The victim said the ordeal has left him feeling more frightened than his internment during the Second World War.
He was threatened as he watched television in his front room after the intruders broke into his home in the Yardley area of Birmingham at around 2am last Saturday morning.
They disconnected the phone lines and removed his emergency pendant.
One of the thieves then held a quilt over the veteran's mouth to stop him making any noise as the other ransacked his home, stealing watches, cash and jewellery.
Speaking to police after the ordeal, the pensioner said: "I was a prisoner of war in 1943 and believed I was going to be shot, but I was not as afraid then as I now feel in my own home."
A CCTV camera on a neighbouring home caught the two me