An 83-year-old woman forced a burglar to leap from a first-floor window after confronting him in her home.
The pensioner heard a noise upstairs in her house in Forest Drive, Chelmsford, at 7.55pm on Thursday.
She found a man, described as large, about 20 and 5ft 9ins, in her bedroom, who escaped through the window he entered from.
Nothing was taken but £100 damage was done to the window.
Published Wednesday, January 26, 2005
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