For 20 agonising minutes, a mother and her three young children were stricken by fear when they were held captive in their Yishun flat yesterday.
A desperate intruder had broken into their home and was frantically trying to escape the police.
He was eventually arrested.
Speaking to The New Paper after the incident, Madam Suhadah Jumadi, 33, said she was getting ready to break fast with her children in the living of their home in Block 431B, Yishun Avenue 1, when she saw a barefooted man walk out of her bedroom.
He had climbed into her sixth-storey flat through the master bedroom window from the level above, breaking her window grilles.
She hadn’t heard him as the TV was on and her children were playing.
“The man told me not to call the police and asked me to find a way to help him get away,” Madam Suhadah said.
Then she heard a commotion at her door as well as sounds under the block.
“I could see uniformed officers outside (the window on the first storey), as well those knocking on my door (through the peephole).
“That’s when I knew he was a wanted man,” she said.
Source: www.tnp.sg
