A South Auckland woman wounded in a vicious weekend home invasion has such badly swollen eyes she cannot identify items from her home for police.
Lorraine McEwen, aged 56, and Robert Rogers, 54, suffered horrific head injuries when intruders raided Mrs McEwen's Manurewa home on Saturday.
The couple's wounds wereso bad that police initially feared they would die, but they are now in a stable condition in Middlemore Hospital.
Detective Sergeant Neil Grimstone, of Otahuhu, said police believed a knife might have been taken from the property but Mrs McEwen was having trouble seeing and had been unable to identify items taken to her in hospital.
Detective Sergeant Grimstone said there were no real leads in what appeared to be a random attack.
Police were keeping "open minds" on a domestic situation which had led to Mr Rogers' receiving leg injuries in an earlier incident when a car ran him down.
It did not appear to be linked.
Police said at the weekend that three intruders had forced open a window at the rear of the house, which is at the end of a driveway, between 12.30 and 1 am.
One man beat, bound and covered the head of Mrs McEwen's 34-year-old son, Rodney, in his bedroom, while two others attacked Mrs McEwen and Mr Rogers.
