Ballivor woman locked in room while house is ransacked by burglers

Gardai in Trim are investigating a disturbing incident in Ballivor where a young woman was locked in a room while thugs tried to burgle her home. The woman was locked in the room for around an hour and a half from 11pm on Sunday night 14th August until roughly 12.30am on Monday 15th. She had been in the utility room of her home at Stoneyford, Ballivor, when two men came in and simply closed and locked the door behind her. The frightening episode was compounded by her not having a phone on her and all she could do was listen to two males with nondescript accents look around the house for car keys. The two never found any keys and left, but the woman was only freed from the room when her partner came home from work. It is unknown if there was anything else taken. There are no descriptions for the two men who gardaí say the two, who "just appeared" in the house. It is not known what mode of transport, if any, they used to escape. Elsewhere, Trim gardaí are appealing for information on a white Opel Kadett with a 1992 registration which is thought to have been used in two break-ins at an Enfield industrial estate. In the early hours of Thursday morning 11th August, at around 5am, a back door break-in occurred at Westward Precision Engineering on the Enfield Industrial Estate. A laptop was taken from the premises and a vehicle was seen in the area acting suspiciously again at Circle Paints on the same industrial estate a short time later but there was nothing taken. Gardaí do not have CCTV footage of either incident and are appealing for information on the vehicle. A domestic boiler unit was taken from a home at Teaguestown Wood in Trim overnight between Thursday 11th and Friday 12th August. There was nobody at the house overnight and two men seen acting suspiciously in a red Renault Combi van in the area are being sought in connection with the theft of the boiler, which is worth around €1,000. Trim Garda Station is appealing for information on all the incidents and can be contacted on (046) 948 1540.