'Don't you have a gran of your own?'

A Defiant pensioner fought off raiders who forced their way intoher house, asking: "Don't you have a grandmother of your own?"

As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Express,Elizabeth Gray was robbed when two men forced their way into herhome.

The 89-year-old's ordeal began around 7pm. When two men came tothe door of her house near Midstocket Road, the retired plantpathologist thought they were charity collectors.

However, they held her by the shoulder, pushed past her into thehall and said they were looking for money for drugs.

The shocked pensioner tried to call the police but the thugs hadbroken the chord on her phone. Reliving the …