Hero great-gran scares off burglar by beating him with her walking stick

A GREAT-GRAN forced a burglar who broke into her home to flee by walloping him with her walking stick.

BATTERED: Grace Smith (not pictured) used her walking stick to fend off the burglar

The burglar was rifling through pensioner Grace Smith’s belongings after booting her front door in.

But the 89-year-old diabetic, dubbed Amazing Grace, dished out a beating on him during the daylight burglary.

She was about to watch her daily dose of Home and Away before she “suddenly” saw the man lurking in her house.

BREAK IN: She saw the burglar standing in her living room

She said: “I thought it was the neighbours doing some DIY but suddenly there was this man stood in my house.

“He said there was something I needed to see at the end of my garden but I wasn’t falling for that one.

“He pushed past me and started looking through my handbags so I hit him until I was worn out. I smashed my light bulb when I aimed for his head.”

She added: “He could’ve punched me once and I would’ve been done for but I didn’t think that at the time.

"I just thought ‘you’re not having any of my stuff’. I don’t have much, just my little treasures.

“People have often said I am Amazing Grace, I never thought I’d have to prove it.”

The brute shoved Grace onto her sofa before he left.

SEARCH: Cops are investigating the incident

The pensioner, from Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, said: “He got fed up of me hitting him. People have often said I am Amazing Grace but I never thought I’d have to prove it.”

Her daughter Sue Hargreaves, 64, joked: “She was more worried about her cats getting out than she was about herself.”

Police are investigating the March 24 incident in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey.