Lina* was gripped by fear every time the news bulletins reported robberies on elderly people but she never imagined that, one day, she herself would be the victim.

On Thursday at about 9am, the octogenarian returned to the Mosta home she shares with her 77-year-old brother to discover it had been ransacked.

Burglars broke into her small house, making off with about €5,000 in cash and a substantial amount of old jewellery – just about everything the elderly siblings owned.

“I feel terrified,” the 82-year-old trembled, as tears filled her eyes.

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