Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm has shared the frightening story of how she found her garage door opened and belongings stolen in a brazen break-in.
Hundreds of frustrated residents from Townsville have flocked to a rally against crime, calling for the State government to take action on persistent youth crime, according to Sky News host Amanda Stoker.
“People in North Queensland in particular, but throughout the state are fed up,” she said.
“They’re sick of feeling unsafe in their own homes.”
The gold medal winner shared the frightening story of how a burglar broke into her and finance Ryan Gallagher’s home early on Sunday morning.
In a video shared to her TikTok Seebohm said her partner had first noticed something was amiss when he saw their garage door was left open on his way to work.
The 31-year-old said the person had silently got inside the home between 5:30am and 6:30am but luckily could not get any further than the garage because she is “pretty meticulous about making sure everything’s closed up and locked”.
Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm has shared the story of her home getting broken into. Picture: Clive Rose/Getty Images
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The garage goes through to the laundry and then into the kitchen but Seebohm insisted the thoroughfare was all locked.
“I definitely made sure that was locked which I’m very thankful for because they couldn’t get into the house but somehow they did manage to get into all of our cars, not sure how,” she said.
“We believe they might have opened the garage from Ryan’s car who has a buzzer in his car but why just open the garage why not open the gate?”
Both Seebohm and Mr Gallagher’s car keys were in the house so the perpetrators were unable to take the vehicles despite getting their hands on the valuables inside.
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Seebohm’s wallet which contained her credit cards was stolen and the intruder clearly rummaged through the cars.
Footage taken by Seebohm showed the two cars and their glove boxes and centre consoles were left open as a clear sign the thief had a good search for any valuables.
“(It was) very scary waking up to that on a Sunday morning. And just didn’t sleep good last night but waiting for the police to come out and hopefully get some fingerprints and we might know who did this or we might not so fingers crossed,” she said.
Queensland has recently seen a spike in youth crime with links between school attendance and illegal activity in towns like Cairns, Townsville, Mount Isa and Cape York at alarming rates.
The state has also seen more than 22,000 unlawful entry offences and over 1,300 robbery incidents this year.