A MUM has described the “awful” moment a masked man armed with a knife broke into their home and jumped on her 15-year-old daughter’s bed before running away.

The mum-of-four, who wants to remain anonymous to protect herself and her daughter, says she was home with her partner talking in their bedroom on Wednesday, August 31 when her 15 year-old daughter thought she saw someone on the landing of their Hard Lane home.

Her mum said: “Me and my partner were talking in our room, this was early hours of the morning, so my daughter came out of her room to see who was on the landing – thinking it was my partner.

“But when she opened her bedroom door she’s seen what looked to be a young man all in black with a balaclava covering his face and holding a knife listening at the door of my room.

“She saw him and screamed and ran into her room and hid under the duvet and he ran in after her and jumped on her bed over her still holding the knife.

“She screamed her head off and he ran out of her room and we heard her scream and saw him as he ran down the stairs from the landing.

“My partner saw the knife and the man said ‘come on then’ and pointed it at him and ran down the stairs.

“We waited a bit but went down after him and downstairs the front and back door was open and my partner ran out and told our neighbour to call the police.

“CCTV showed three men had been in the house, but we only saw one, so I’m guessing the others were downstairs.

“My daughter is traumatised, she’s refusing to come home, she’s staying at her nan's.

“I’m just so angry, how can someone come in your home and threaten a child.

“It’s terrifying. We think it must be mistaken identity because they only took two knives, nothing else.

“It’s just so scary, we now want to move.”

Detective Inspector Barbara Hebden said: “This was an appalling incident for teenage victim and her family to have experienced. Thankfully she was not harmed during the incident, but she has been left very distressed and is receiving the full support of officers.

“I would like to appeal to residents to check their CCTV and doorbell footage to see if it may have captured anything which may help with our enquiries and contact us so we can bring the offenders to justice. If you have any information no matter how small or irrelevant you may think it is please pass it on to us as it could be what we need to identify the offenders.”

Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact @MerPolCC on Twitter, ‘Merseyside Police Contact Centre’ on Facebook or ring 101 with reference 22000646555. You can also contact Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via their online form at: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/forms/give-information-anonymously