Woman tied up & gagged in horrifying midnight robbery where armed men ‘told her not to shout or she would be killed’

A WOMAN was tied up and gagged in her home by armed men who threatened to kill her, a court has heard.

The four masked men travelled from Birmingham to carry out the home robbery on Freeman Street in Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

At Grimsby Crown Court, the horror of the midnight robbery on October 16 last year was outlined by prosecutor Michael Forrest.

He told how the victim was in her flat when she heard repeated knocking at the door at midnight.

When she answered...