A YOUNG couple’s defence with a baseball bat of a terrifying suburban home invasion by a gang of armed teenagers has been caught on dramatic CCTV video footage.

The brazen house robbery, carried out by four youths of African appearance carrying hammers, is the ninth home invasion in just 16 days in what appears to be a Melbourne crime wave.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Gavin Fry and his fiancee Leah Meurer were asleep in their house in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Kings Park.

It was just before 1am, when four males aged in their teens and wearing hoodies kicked down the couple’s back door.

They entered the couple’s bedroom and, shining a light on Mr Fry and Ms Meurer, they said “give us the money, give us the money” and demanded they hand over their car keys, Nine News reported.

“So two of them have entered our bedroom with torches ... one of them had a hammer and they were demanding cash,” Leah Meurer told Radio 3AW.

Mr Fry fended off the two youths, who tried to fight him back, from the bedroom and the couple managed to barricade themselves inside.

But Ms Meurer was forced to defend the door as Mr Fry dialled triple-0.

In a terrifying few seconds, she had her body weight against the door while the gang began to smash it with the hammer to force their way back in.

Mr Fry grabbed a baseball bat and, with “fear and shock turned to anger”, he decided “I’m going to get them out of my house”.

Chasing the youths down the path, he saw them prepare to steal two cars.

Mr Fry approached the driver’s side and bashed at the window with his bat, which broke.

When the robbers took off in the cars, Mr Fry went back inside to help his fiancee who later broke down as they waited for police to arrive.

Speaking to The Australian, Mr Fry said he and Ms Meurer were “just completely shaken, beside ourselves, traumatised, we don’t feel safe staying in the house.

“It’s disgusting, these kids ... have no regard for anything.”















Victorian Police may know who the criminals are and told The Australian that “repeat offenders” were often involved in aggravated burglaries.

About 18 months ago, police say one group of armed robbers committed up to nine offences in a row.

The latest wave of home invasions began on February 14, when a man had a knife held to his throat as a gang raided his apartment in Albion.

On a second attack in Albion at 1.30am on February 27, a woman had a knife held to her throat while she slept by her son.

Six of the latest crime spree have happened in north-western Melbourne suburbs, including one in Saint Albans, one each in Kings park and neighbouring Taylors Hill, and the Albion attacks.

The others took place in Bayswater in inner western Melbourne, the beachside suburb of Brighton and at Skye in the south-west.