Horror as masked knife-wielding thugs hold mum hostage in front of kids before locking children away & ransacking house

A TERRIFIED mum was held hostage by masked knife-wielding thugs in front of her kids.

The horror unfolded at an Oxfordshire home on Friday between 7.45pm and 8.45pm after three men posed at the door with clipboards.

A woman in her 40s who lives at the property, on De La Warr Drive in Banbury, went to greet them.

She was petrified to see two of the thugs were wielding knives.

One man dragged her further into the house by grabbing her neck while the others searched her pockets.