Burglar watches sleeping mum
A Gold Coast mother has relived the terrifying moment she woke up to find a burglar standing over her bed after he had just ransacked her home.
Teena Ross was sound asleep on Sunday morning while two men went about stealing almost everything of value from the ground floor of her Upper Coomera home.
She woke to find one of the men standing at the foot of her bed, watching her sleep.
It’s believed the thieves got in through an unlocked door.
Ms Ross moved into the newly built home three weeks ago and her insurance policy was due to start this week.
“It was just after 6am. Normally I would have my little boy here, but he was with his dad and thankfully my 16year-old daughter was away from home as well,” Ms Ross (pictured) said.
“I heard movement downstairs. I thought my daughter must have come home.
“My bedroom door cracked, but sometimes she’ll do that to see if I’m awake, or if I want a coffee. I just rolled over to see what she wanted and there’s this guy standing at the end of my bed watching me.”
Ms Ross told the Bulletin she bolted upright out of bed, causing the man to turn and run from the room. She spotted another man just outside her bedroom looking through her bookcase. He also ran.
“Waking up to a man in my room is mind-numbingly terrifying,” she said. “He just stood there. I sat up and I said, ‘who the f**k are you?’, and he just stood there.”
The pair ran out a side door and took off in a car loaded with Ms Ross’s belongings.
“I almost caught them ... I wasn’t thinking. I don’t know what I would have done if I got my hands on them,” she said.
“It wasn’t until I came back inside that I realised they hadn’t just been upstairs, the media room was empty, they took a 55-inch TV, PlayStation 4, the surround-sound system – it was massive, they would have had to spend some time in here.
“My brother is staying with me at the moment, to help me move in. They took his laptop ... they took his mobile phone that was 10cm away from his head. He was asleep.”
Ms Ross said it was devastating to have the home she worked hard to get built and had been living in for only three weeks ransacked in a robbery that also saw the theft of some cherished items from her late husband.
If you saw a small white car with licence plate 194 YCM in Upper Coomera on Sunday morning, or have any information about this incident, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.