A 71-year-old have-a-go-hero thwarted a gang of sledgehammer-wielding robbers with his bare hands and snatched back £22,000 of stolen watches.

Michael Graver took on the four men in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, when he confronted them in the doorway of a jewellers.CCTV shows the pensioner was punched in the face and dodged swinging sledgehammers before grabbing the stolen goods back.[/*]The four robbers and an accomplice are to be sentenced for their crimes.[/*]