Woman threatened with gun and partner attacked with bat in house raid in Sheffield

Eniko Balagova, aged 21, was getting ready for work yesterday when two men burst into the Fox Hill Road home in Hillsborough she shares with her partner Peter Lakatos.

The young couple’s one year-old daughter, Emma, was also in the house when the raiders struck.

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Eniko, a warehouse worker, had a gun pointed at her head and Peter, a fork-lift truck driver, was left bleeding after being repeatedly hit with a baseball attack.

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The culprits demanded cannabis and cash and are believed to have mistakenly broken into the wrong home.

A third man, armed with a baseball bat, stood guard outside the property until the raiders heard young Emma crying upstairs and fled.

They grabbed Eniko’s handbag, which contained some early birthday presents she received for her 21st birthday today.

A police investigation into the raid is under way.

Eniko said: “I had a gun pointed to my head in the lounge and Peter was attacked with a baseball bat on the stairs.

They were shouting ‘where is the weed, where is the weed?’.

“I told them we do not use drugs then they started asking for ‘the cash’. I told them we do not have any money. We have a little daughter and are really poor.

“Emma started crying upstairs and I think that is when they realised they had got the wrong house.”

Eniko added: “While the gun was at my head all I was thinking about was Peter and Emma because I could hear Peter getting hurt and if they killed us both my daughter would be all on her own.”

She is urging anyone who may find her stolen bag, to hand it to the police.

“I can’t imagine that my make-up and new Paco Rabane perfume will be of any use to the men who stole it, so they may just have dumped the bag,” she said.

“But it means a lot to me. We haven’t got much and I was really grateful for my birthday presents.”

Call 101 and quote incident 127 of November 28.

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