A TERRIFIED elderly woman confronted an intruder on the stairs of her York home in the early hours of today.
The woman, who was unhurt but badly shocked, pushed the youth away as he tried to enter her bedroom in Thanet Road, Acomb, at 1.55am.
The intruder smashed a downstairs window and entered the house, stealing money from the woman's coat pocket in the living room.
As he climbed the stairs, the woman confronted him. She pushed him away when he asked for her handbag.
He then fled over her back garden fence and cycled along Chaloners Road.
Updated: 12:52 Saturday, October 19, 2002
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