An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England. Ron Croker was drying his clothes last week when the masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire.

“I’ve had fights and scuffled when I was younger, but when he was coming at me I thought I couldn’t back down,” the former construction foreman told The Times of London. “There was no one there to help me. It was either me or him and I won.”

Police said the suspect, identified as Lloyd Smith, 42, has been charged with attempted robbery. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ron Croker was drying his clothes in Maltby, South Yorkshire, when the would-be robber burst in and demanded: "Give me you f***** money now!" Mr Croker stood his ground and refused to give up his ...

This is the moment a pensioner fights off a mugger in a launderette with just a pair of jeans. Ron Croker, 84, was drying his clothes in a Laundrette in Maltby, South Yorkshire, when he was attacked by a masked mugger on Tuesday night. The masked man demanded money from the retired building site foreman, backing him into the corner.