Pensioner, 79, bravely recalls being beaten and thrown to ground by evil thugs

A pensioner battered by sick-minded thugs trying to steal her mobility scooter has bravely spoken out in a video about her ordeal.

Ida Brown, 79, told ChronicleLive about how she was attacked at her Dunston home in Gateshead, leaving her badly injured and needing hospital treatment.

“I saw shadows moving through the glass in the door, when I opened the door next thing I know I’m on the ground,” she says.

She continues: “Then they were running around the houses shouting, ‘We’ll be back’, that’s what they were shouting, ‘We’ll be back.”

Ida says she got herself back onto her feet despite her injuries and then pulls up her sleeves to show deep purple bruises on her arms.

“I’m certainly not going to open the door anymore,” she says.

The scooter wasn’t stolen but the brutes dragged her out the front door of her home in Ross Avenue and pulled her face over a pebble-dashed wall.

Ida, who has leukemia and recently underwent a heart procedure, did not sustain any long-term injuries as a result of the terrifying and violent crime.

She has had security lights and a new CCTV system installed and is having daily hot meals delivered by well-wishers free of charge.

A GoFundMe page set up by 22-year-old Tonicha Pearson, who also lives in Dunston, has raised more than £5,000 for Ida.

Local volunteer group Dunston Help For Families has also arranged for a shed to be built outside her home to store her mobility scooter and deter thieves.

Ida, who lives with her cats Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, said: “I’m not used to being on TV or on the front page of the papers.

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“I didn’t look very beautiful but I hope it has made a difference and people think twice about attacking someone else like.

“I just wanted to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else and people seem to think that the people who did this to me wouldn’t try it again because of all the backlash.”

Northumbria Police continue to investigate the attempted robbery and are still asking members of the community to provide names of those responsible for the cowardly attack.