BURGLARS attempted to break into a home in Cwmbran while the owners were out.
Wendy Mckenna was away from home on the evening of Wednesday December 18. She was in car on the M25 motorway, in Greater London, when she received a notification on her phone that thieves were trying to break into her house.
Ms Mckenna, who lives at Primrose Court in Henllys, said: “We were on the M25 and I had a Ring camera notification that there was a person in my kitchen and my garden ( they were picked up through the kitchen door).”
The incident happened on Wednesday, December 18 at 7.53pm.
Ms Mckenna has CCTV cameras which are from Ring, a home security device business.
The two men were seen on the CCTV footage. They were seen lurking around the side of Ms Mckenna’s house.
Both men were wearing face coverings, with their hoods up.
Ms Mckenna said as she was in the car on the M25, she “opened the app and saw the 2 men, I called my neighbour and asked him to call the police”.
On the CCTV footage, one of the men was shown approaching the kitchen entrance and it appeared like he spotted the camera.
He was holding what appeared to be a crowbar. On the footage, the man looked at the camera above him and threw the crowbar it it, knocking it which moved its position.
Ms Mckenna said she was ably to remotely access her alarm system in her house from the M25.
She set off the alarm and through a speaker spoke to the intruders.
“I went back on the app and was able to set of an alarm and talk the the people in the garden. I said: ‘you have been caught on cameras all around the house, and the police are on the way’ [and] they then left,” said Ms Mckenna.
In the meantime, Ms Mckenna’s neighbour had phoned the police who arrived shortly after.
“Within 10 minutes 4 police cars were at my house,” said Ms Mckenna.
A spokesperson for Gwent Police said: “We received a report of an attempted burglary at an address in Primrose Court at around 8pm on Wednesday 18 December.
“Officers attended and conducted a search of the area.
“No items were taken, and enquiries are ongoing.
“Anyone with information is asked to call 101, send us a direct message on social media or via the website, quoting log reference 2400417898.”