Aussie dad restrains teenager after alleged break inRhiannon LewinNewsWireMon, 13 October 2025 7:50AM
A Melbourne resident has described the incredible moment he chased down and restrained a teenager after his home was broken into.
Police say the home on Kinkora Rd in Hawthorn was broken into by two teenage boys about 3.25am on Monday.
The resident, 40-year-old Grant, said he went to investigate after he heard a noise inside his home.
He confronted the two teenage boys, one aged 14 and the other aged 15, who were skulking around the ground floor.
They fled the scene.
Grant told Sunrise he chased the teens out the back door and down the street while dressed in his jocks.
“I was yelling at them and they took off, and I got a hold of one of them,” he said.
Grant said four teenagers were asleep upstairs at the time of the break-in.
“What do you do, someone is in your house, you want to get them out,” he said.
Grant explained that one of the teenagers was trying to jump over a nearby fence, so he “just pulled him back down and held onto him”.
“I made the kid call triple-0 once I caught him … I didn’t have a phone on me,” he said.
“He just said, ‘You can call the cops, just don’t hurt me’.”
Grant says he managed to restrain the teen until police arrived.
Police took the 15-year-old into custody and later arrested the 14-year-old boy.
Police say they are investigating whether the boys were also involved in an aggravated burglary in Elphin Grove just prior to the incident.
Originally published as Aussie dad restrains teenager after alleged break in
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