A crazed intruder tried to break into the home of actor Julia Roberts and was promptly thrown head first into cactus bushes by her ultra-tough security guards. Julia Roberts security comprises all former US military personnel.

The Hollywood actress may have had the fright of her life when the man tried to gain access into her stunning $9.5 million Malibu property in mid-January, just a few weeks before the tragic suicide of her sister Nancy Motes.

One close neighbour, who saw the incident, explained to Radar online: “It was about one in the afternoon when four sheriff cars came rushing down the road, they were white ones, which means it’s the chief in the area, they’re not messing around. I thought someonehad been murdered or there was a fire. By the time I got there, the man was just crawling out of the cactus bush outside her property and the security guards were talking to the police. One of them was boasting saying: ‘I’m an ex-Marine and I just picked him up and threw him head first.’”