News from around the county Robbery terror as masked men barge into home

Two men armed with a machete forced their way into a home and threatened to behead a man.

The 57-year-old victim, who did not want to be named, heard a knock at the front door of his house in Minster, Sheppey, at about 10.20pm on Saturday.

When he opened the door, two men with scarves across their faces and their hoods up barged their way in and held him at knifepoint.

The victim, who was home alone at the time, said: “I usu- ally ask who’s there before opening it but I just thought it was my partner coming back home.

“As soon as the door opened, two fellas barged in and held me at knifepoint. “They had a machete.” The men, who have been described as aged in their early 20s and of southern Asian appearance, then made the man go into an upstairs bedroom where they made threats and demanded money.

The victim suffered a small cut to his hand and a black eye in the scuffle, as he made a run for it to his neighbour’s.

He said: “If I hadn’t have got out of the house, I think things could have been a lot worse.

“They were threatening all sorts; one even said they would chop my head off.

“All I remember feeling was panic – worrying about my safety and what was going to happen next.

“I think it was a case of mistaken identity because I haven’t got anything here.

“It has really upset me. My house has been violated.”