British mother wrestled intruder after he crept into hotel room as her terrified son watched on

A British mum on holiday with her young son wrestled an intruder after he snuck into her hotel room in the middle of the night. Rachel Brown was dozing at the five-star Epic Sana Algarve hotel in Vilamoura, Portugal when the man crept through her unlocked balcony doors and into the first floor suite.
British mother wakes to find intruder sneaking in through unlocked balcony doors of her room at luxury hotel in Portugal before wrestling him out as her terrified seven-year-old watched on.
A British mum on holiday with her young son wrestled an intruder after he snuck into her hotel room in the middle of the night.
Rachel Brown was dozing at the five-star Epic Sana Algarve hotel in Vilamoura, Portugal when the man crept through her unlocked balcony doors and into the first floor suite.
The 42-year-old, whose seven-year-old son Jaxon was in the same room, sprung into action, hitting and pushing the man back out onto the balcony.
The intruder, who managed to grab Rachel’s Apple watch from her arm during the wrestle, then fled by climbing over two neighbouring balconies before jumping around 13ft to the ground below.
The man has not been caught and wasn’t seen on CCTV, though the watch was found in some nearby bushes and returned to Rachel.
Having now returned to the UK after her week-long holiday, the managing director is sharing the frightening experience in the hope it will remind other holidaymakers to lock their balcony doors.
Rachel, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, said she shut the balcony door but did not lock it before the man appeared at around 10.20pm on July 22.
A British mother has shared her horrifying ordeal after a man crept into her unlocked hotel suite in the middle of the night while on holiday with her family.
Rachel Brown, 42, said she was falling asleep on the last night of a week-long break in Vilamoura, Portugal, with her son, Jaxon, seven, when she saw the curtain twitch.
A man snuck into her second floor room at five-star Epic Sana hotel, forcing her to wrestle him out and onto the balcony, she says.
Rachel, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, said he climbed across two neighbours' balconies then jumped around 13ft to the ground below and ran off - after stealing her Apple watch in the fight.
The man has not been caught and wasn't seen on CCTV and Rachel wants to warn holidaymakers to always lock the balcony door.
A mum has sounded the alarm for all holiday-goers to keep their balcony doors bolted after a bloke 'slipped into her family's hotel suite' in the dead of night.
Rachel Brown, 42, was on the brink of sleep during the final evening of a sun-soaked week in Vilamoura, Portugal, with her young son Jaxon, seven, when she noticed a sinister shuffle behind the curtain.
The intruder had the cheek to sneak into her second-floor digs at the swanky Epic Sana hotel, leading to a tussle that saw Rachel boot him out onto the balcony, she claims.