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Disabled mans house burgled and carer kidnapped
Burglars held knife and gun to disabled man’s face after kidnapping his carer to break into his house
Last updated at 6:47 PM on 22nd February 2012
Masked robbers held a gun to a paralysed man’s face after kidnapping one of his carers and forcing the terrified woman to let them into his home.
The gang snatched the carer at gunpoint from outside her home in Sandwell and forced her to drive to disabled Noel Martin’s house in nearby Edgbaston at about 10pm on Monday.
Once inside, they grabbed a second carer and bound both women’s hands with electrical cord before threatening 52-year-old Mr Martin.
Attack: Disabled Noel Martin was robbed at gunpoint by a vicious gang who kidnapped his carer to break into his home
Mr Martin, who was left paralysed from the neck down in an attack by racist thugs in Germany 16 years ago, could only watch helplessly from his bed as the gang ransacked his home.
Mr Martin, who needs round-the-clock care, said: ‘When they burst into the room I was lying in bed. I saw the gun coming through the door and I thought it was a joke.
‘Then they started asking for the money and jewellery. I told them I only had £20. One of the men in a mask put a knife to my throat and then the gun.’
Despite the threat, Mr Martin refused to be cowed. ‘I’m not going to let a few people scare me. If they take my life, they take my life.
The Government is facing a showdown today re Welfare Reform Bill
The Government is facing a showdown with peers over its controversial shake-up of the benefits system.
The proposals have already endured a difficult time in the House of Lords, where peers inflicted a series of defeats on ministers over the reforms, which will cap benefits at £26,000.
But the changes imposed on the Government were reversed by MPs, and the Welfare Reform Bill now returns to the Lords for what could be a test of strength between the two Houses of Parliament.
Cuts in Norfolk were an “all-out assault” on disabled people’s living standards
Norfolk care services rallying cry
By Richard Wheeler Monday, February 13, 2012
10:04 AM
Care campaigners have been urged to keep “fighting, complaining and yelling” to stop services for thousands of vulnerable people being decimated by government cutbacks.
The proposal will see charges of £15 to £36 implemented per session at day centres, transport arrangements changing and staff numbers decreasing.
And opponents yesterday accused the ruling Conservatives of preparing to “put their hands up like sheep” to back the spending plans, despite hundreds of people across Norfolk voicing fears about the changes.
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