Business owner fights off armed thieves at Melbourne car yard

A Melbourne business owner has fought off a group of offenders who broke into his car yard earlier this year.

Mourad Jawad, the owner of Spot On Motors, received a call from his security company about 3.30am on May 29, alerting him to the break-in at his Hoppers Crossing business.What might have caused Mike Lynch's superyacht to sinkCCTV shows the moment he said the group believed they had pulled off the robbery of a V8 Commodore and a Mustang.

"We got them on camera, they thought they had hit jackpot. But they didn't know I was coming," Jawad said.After notifying police, he arrived at the property and used his car to box-in the armed offenders."I got a family to feed so I thought I would give them a ram so they wouldn't come back.During the incident, the group also broke into the office, knocking over Jawad's pet bird Smokey.

"The bird, she was inside when they kicked the door in, she fell on the floor. She was in shock for a whole week," he said.Police have arrested and charged three men aged 33, 30 and 28 over the incident. The trio have been bailed. : Stay across all the latest in breaking news, celebrity and sport via our WhatsApp channel. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.

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