An elderly man has described a gang of men who burst into his County Down home and robbed him as 'scum.'
Three masked men, armed with sticks, burst into John Grant's house at Marion Park in Ballykilner at 8pm on Saturday night.
They forced the 79 year-old into his living room and stole his wallet.
At one point, Mr Grant tried to pull a mask from one of the men.
"If that's all they can do to old people, that's no good to nobody. They're just scum," Mr Grant told UTV.
The £100 stolen from his wallet was for his grown-up children to buy a Mother's Day present for his wife, who lives in a nearby care home.
Detectives in Newcastle are urging anyone with information about the robbery to come forward.
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