The owner had gone to switch the alarm off when he was confronted by the men.
Shocking CCTV footage of the raid shows three men standing outside the back of the house on East Kilbride's Newlands Road shortly before 1am on Sunday, October 2, waving a knife.
"It took them about 20 minutes to get into the house, trying various patio and French doors before they sawed off the bottom of a Yale lock on the kitchen door. One boy initially came in and got my handbag with my car keys in it."I actually think they were after my husband's car as it's a top-of-the-range Range Rover Sport SVR. So when it dawned on them that the keys opened mine and not that one. They came back in looking for my husband's keys again we think.
"It's done it before if something has fallen over so my husband deactivated it, never imagining there was someone in the house, and not wanting it to wake the children. The mum went on: "Every scenario of what could have happened has gone through our heads - especially since one of them was carrying a knife.
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