Family stunned as police hit wrong house in Waterloo

Mar 6 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Family stunned as police hit wrong house

A MUM and her young children had an early morning surprise – when police stormed their Waterloo home.

Officers used a battering ram to smash through the door of Julie Haigh’s home as she was in a bedroom with the youngsters.

The only trouble was, it was the wrong house.

The police were looking for a man who had lived at the house SEVEN YEARS ago.

It is the second time this week that Huddersfield Police have messed up in such raids.

Earlier, officers broke into Naomi Tikva’s Golcar home, looking for a man who had lived there two years earlier.

Mrs Haigh, of Beadon Avenue, said: “It was terrifying.

“My husband Martin had left for work and I was in the bedroom with my children Liam 12, and Chloe, eight, and my nephew Callum, 11, when there was a dreadful noise downstairs.

“There were some almighty bangs and I ran to the window to look out and saw a garden full of police officers.