article_snippet.sent: Verna Fisher, then 81, awoke in total darkness in the early hours of 31 July last year confronted by four men wearing white balaclavas and gloves.
article_snippet.sent: Verna Fisher bed-ridden husband Mortimer, who was 85, was sleeping in another room and woke with a man standing over prosecutor Philip Evans, but was powerless to help prosecutor Philip Evans wife.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Mrs Fisher, aged 81, was asleep in her bedroom.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fisher, who was 85 and had been bed-ridden for a number of years, was asleep in what was nominally the living room of that house.
article_snippet.sent: The four men went into Mrs Fisher’s bedroom, where Mrs Fisher’s usually slept with the light on, and turned the light off.
article_snippet.sent: The four of The four men surrounded Mrs Fisher
article_snippet.sent: ’s bed and Mrs Fisher’s woke up to find four men, wearing masks standing over Mrs Fisher’s, one with his hand over Mrs Fisher’s mouth.
article_snippet.sent: The room was in complete darkness, Mrs Fisher’s was terrified.