Three people, including a 78-year-old man awaiting hip replacement surgery, have allegedly been assaulted in a terrifying home invasion.
Bobby Andelkovic, 51, said three men wearing balaclavas forced entry to his home in the northern Adelaide suburb of Munno Para at about 1.15am on Saturday.
Mr Andelkovic said the alleged home invaders chopped his fat. er’s thigh ‘in half’ using a blunt machete and punched his aunt, leaving her with a brain clot.
One of the thugs allegedly told Mr Andelkovic ‘I’ll chop your f***ing head off’ during shortly after they entered through an unlocked door of his Galda Way home.
‘I heard a commotion as they came into the house and when they saw me, they started yelling, asking me where the money was and then they started bashing me up,’ Mr Andelkovic told the Advertiser.
‘There was blood everywhere – they used their blunt machete to chop my dad’s thigh in half. There was just blood on the bed and the floor.’
Mr Andelkovic threw himself over his 78-year-old father who is awaiting hip replacement surgery, in an effort to protect him.
Two of the men then went further into the house, where one of them allegedly punched Mr Andelkovic’s 61-year-old aunt Tania with his fist.
The third man went into the living room, where Mr Andelkovic’s elderly uncle was in his wheelchair, and allegedly flipped a table over.
When Mr Andelkovic called the attackers ‘cowards’ for attacking elderly people, they bashed him again, he alleged.
The alleged assault lasted about 20 minutes, and on their way out, the men allegedly broke glass near the front door and smashed a hole in the wall.
Mr Andelkovic was left with a black eye, fractured nose, jaw and ribs, bruised and swollen forearms and beaten kneecaps and ankles.
He, his father Alexander, 78, and aunt Tania, 61, were all taken to hospital.
Though he was in a lot of pain, Mr Andelkovic said he felt ‘more traumatised by what happened to me and my family’.
Police said the family may have been targeted, but Mr Andelkovic said he did not know the men or recognise their voices.
Nothing was stolen apart from one ID card, the family said.
The suspects have not yet been located with anyone with information urged to contact Crime Stoppers.