BERNARD DWYER

Bernard Dwyer

Millionaire, Bernard Dwyer, yesterday told how he fought off three armed burglars who were holding a knife to his daughter's throat, saying he "would rather die like a man than a dog".

Bernard Dwyer, 51, was convinced he and his family were about to be killed so he chose to take on the men - Dean and Michael Atkins, and Joseph Carty - hours after they had allegedly killed restaurant owner Kam Fum Chung, known as Helen. (Bernard Dwyer)

Mr Dwyer, his daughter Aisling, now 14, and his son Danny, 19, were asleep when the three men burst in.

He said: "I heard people running up the stairs and Aisling screaming 'Dad'. I had never heard screaming like that before. I knew something was clearly wrong."

He jumped from his bed and ran towards Aisling's room but was confronted at the doorway by three men, all masked, wearing balaclavas, gloves and padded out.

One man was holding a gun, waving it about, screaming menacingly and they attacked him, even after he agreed to show them where his safe was, knocking him out.

Mr Dwyer was knocked unconscious for a few minutes and when he came round one man was holding a knife to Aisling's throat and screaming: "I am going to cut your f****** daughter".

Mr Dwyer said: "We were going to die anyway, that's what I thought. I thought, if I am going to die then I would rather die like a man than a dog."

"I hit him several times, I hit him plenty. The man with the knuckleduster screamed "He's fighting back the b******, kill the b******, he's fighting back."

Bernard Dwyer managed to fight back and the raiders fled empty-handed, leaving Mr Dwyer with broken ribs and 30 cuts to his body and head - but a true hero - and one who puts this gutless useless government to shame for they are the ones who have left decent honest people like Bernard Dwyer at the mercy of murdering scum who could just as easily have murdered both him and his family had he not decided that "he would rather die like a man and not a dog"!

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