An 89-year-old woman was beaten and bound up by masked burglars who stole her wedding ring from her finger.
The pensioner told Canterbury Crown Court how she was left in a ‘state of panic’ after Anthony Foord, 45, and Amie Lynn, 38, broke into her home in Dymchurch, Kent, at around 4am on April 14.
They even threatened to make her drink laundry detergent if she did not give them money.
When they broke into her home, they woke her up by tying her hands and feet together with cables – before telling her to ‘do as you’re told and everything will be alright’.
Foord flipped her mattress in search of cash – before tearing the rings from her fingers and a necklace from her neck.
He then used a book to repeatedly hit her over the head.
The pair also smashed her mobile phone and poured bleach all over …