A woman has filmed the terrifying moment she busted and confronted an alleged intruder inside her home.
Flora Socratous leapt into action after waking up to find the unwelcome visitor in her inner-city Melbourne home about 6am on Sunday.
She found him in the kitchen and began filming after he ran into the bathroom.
The video showed the male alleged intruder wearing a green jumper, beanie and mask with a backpack running down a hallway trying to flee through the front door with Ms Socratous in hot pursuit.
‘How did you get into my home?’ she called out.
The alleged intruder was unable to unlock the screen door.
‘What’s in your bag?’ Ms Socratous repeatedly called out.
He eventually headed into a bedroom, where he climbed out of the same window he used to break into the home.
Flora Socratous admits she was ‘silly’ to confront and chase the home intruder
The homeowner claimed that the intruder (pictured in the bathroom) requested that she stop filming him
The alleged intruder then climbed over a side fence and fled the scene.
Nothing was stolen from the home.
One day on, a shaken Ms Socratous has no idea of how the intruder broke into the Windsor property her family have called home for 50 years.
It’s the first time their home has ever been broken into.
‘He managed to break the (window) latch- I have no idea how he managed to released the pin,’ Ms Socratous told Seven News.
‘He got in. I wasn’t sure if someone was still in the house so by the time I got up, he was already in the kitchen.’
The alleged intruder wasn’t impressed about being filmed and tried to push the homeowner out of the way as he attempted to flee and ran into the bathroom.
‘He said ‘don’t record me, and that’s when he was losing it,’ Ms Socratous recalled.
‘You think it would never happen to you, but it can happen.’
She admitted that she was ‘silly’ to chase him without knowing whether he was armed.
Ms Socratous now plans to install a security alarm system.
‘I’m living in fear. Is it going to happen again?’ she said.
The alleged intruder (pictured) headed to a bedroom before he climbed out the window. He then climbed over a fence and escaped
A homeowner has caught the terrifying moment she encountered an alleged intruder in her home on camera.The alleged intruder is pictured
The alleged intruder remains on the run.
Victoria Police are investigating the break-in.
‘Police are investigating an aggravated burglary which occurred in Upton Road, Windsor,’ a spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Officers have been told a resident confronted a male inside their property about 6am on January 5.’
‘The male jumped out a window and ran off. Fortunately no one was hurt and nothing was stolen.’
‘The investigation into the incident is ongoing.’
Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers.
The alleged intruder’s face can be seen as he climbed over the gate to escape
The burglary comes after the Police Association Victoria unleashed on the Victorian government last week in the wake of an ‘explosion of home invasions’ across Melbourne.
The union said that residents had been ‘compelled to engage their own private security’ to patrol their neighbourhoods and ward off potential offenders.
‘This is an indictment on the government’s failure to properly resource our police force,’ the statement read.
The union added the crime rate is so high because the police force has ‘1,000 vacancies, more than 900 police off-work due to injury and illness and 43 police stations closures’.
‘The consequence we’re now seeing is neighbourhoods banding together to fund their own private security, and not for the first time,’ the union added.
‘This is simply unacceptable.’
The union also claimed the state government is ‘sitting on their hands’ instead of finding a solution.
It urged the government to ‘come to the table and negotiate a fair pay deal’ to attract new recruits and stop the ‘exodus of experienced police officers’.
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