{"id":17456,"date":"2016-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/elderly-couple-injured-in-violent-home-invasion\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"elderly-couple-injured-in-violent-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/elderly-couple-injured-in-violent-home-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple injured in violent home invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Police say there are \u201cappalled\u201d by a cowardly home invasion at Flinders Park.<\/h3>\n<p>An elderly couple sustained serious injuries when they were assaulted during the invasion on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Just before midnight, two men forced their way into the house on Pine Avenue, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 73-year-old woman from the home went to investigate the noise, but she was knocked down by one of the suspects. The fall fractured the woman&#8217;s hip and injured her elbow,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer husband, a 75-year-old man, went to his wife&#8217;s aid and grappled with one the suspects, but he was struck over the head with a wooden object, which caused a serious head injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The injured couple managed to activate their alarm and the suspects fled the house empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>Police &#8212; including a dog patrol &#8212; searched the area and knocked on doors, but the suspects have not been located.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were taken to the QEH for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a strange twist, the same couple were targeted in a previous home invasion &#8212; around Christmas time &#8212; which the police say was unrelated.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Jerome Teakle said police were \u201cappalled that an elderly couple were subject to such a cowardly targeted attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He urged anyone with information on the incident to please contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/rowey-eyeballs-don-pyke-over-dumb-comments\"><strong>ROWEY EYEBALLS DON PYKE AND SAY SORRY FOR \u201cDUMB\u201d COMMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/vic-fracking-ban-could-be-a-bonus-for-sa-says-kouts\"><strong>VICTORIA FRACKING BAN COULD BE SA\u2019S GAIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say there are \u201cappalled\u201d by a cowardly home invasion at Flinders Park. An elderly couple sustained serious injuries when they were assaulted during the invasion on Thursday night. Just before midnight, two men forced their way into the house on Pine Avenue, according to a police statement. \u201cA 73-year-old woman from the home went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-17456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elderly couple injured in violent home invasion - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/elderly-couple-injured-in-violent-home-invasion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elderly couple injured in violent home invasion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police say there are \u201cappalled\u201d by a cowardly home invasion at Flinders Park. 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