A naked Dundee homeowner bravely wrestled a burglar from a stolen car following a brazen raid.
Fearless Alan Smith, 52, grabbed hold of the door handle and was pulled along for several feet before he managed to pull the thief from the moving vehicle outside his Hillbank Gardens home.
He managed to save the family car being stolen, loaded with his TV and computers but the man escaped during the incident at around 4am.
Alan said he was woken by his wife screaming and ran downstairs to confront the fleeing thief.
He said: “I have never heard her scream like that before in my life.
“I thought someone was hurting her. He reversed out of my drive with some speed. I got hold of the door handle and ran for about 10 yards with the car moving.
“I managed to open to door and pull him out. We struggled on the ground but I was naked and had stones in my feet and he got away. It wasn’t until I came back in the house I saw the TV was gone.
“My daughter came downstairs crying and saw her computer was gone. Then I realised my computer was gone too.”
He said his wife Denise had heard a noise earlier in the night and thought it was someone getting up for some water. She went downstairs and found all the doors open but she did not turn on the light.
She closed the doors and went back to bed with a book.
About 15 minutes later she heard another noise and when she went downstairs a second time she disturbed the man, who shot out the patio doors and got into the car.
Alan spent yesterday getting the locks changed, fixing doors and reinforcing the security but he said the damage done to his frightened family will not be so easily repaired.
Some of stolen possessions include two laptops, two iPods, car keys, speakers, mobile phones, cash and a watch.
A police spokesman described the suspect as being in his 20s, 5ft 10in, with black curly hair and wearing a black tracksuit top with white across the top.
Officers are “pursuing positive lines of inquiry” and anyone with any information is being asked to contact police on 101.