OAP hurt after armed police storm wrong flat

ARMED police used a battering ram to smash through a pensioner's front door while she desperately tried to keep them out, fearing that they were intruders.

Christine Budge, 70, was too scared to return home after officers charged through her basement flat while responding to an incident in an upstairs flat at 30 Sausmarez Street last Thursday night.

Guernsey Police has apologised for causing her distress and admitted that officers actually broke into the wrong premises. The force has agreed to pay for her door to be repaired.

But Mrs Budge, who is partially deaf, was not satisfied with the response, saying she was so nervous following the incident that she had gone to stay with a friend the next night.