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.
Jawad told 9News he rushed to the scene to confront the group and protect his property.
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CCTV 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.
“I hope they come again, I’ll show them something better.”
After notifying police, he arrived at the property and used his car to box-in the armed offenders.
“I worked too hard so why should I let thieves take what I work hard for,” he said.
“I got a family to feed so I thought I would give them a ram so they wouldn’t come back.
“They ran for their life.”
During the incident, the group also broke into the office, knocking over Jawad’s pet bird Smokey.
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”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.
“Lucky they didn’t get my bird.”
Police have arrested and charged three men aged 33, 30 and 28 over the incident. The trio have been bailed.
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