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Sophie Wakefield was home alone when she opened the door to a man pretending to be delivering a parcel on Friday morning.

She was suddenly ambushed by five other men in a horrific attack at her home in Cheltenham shortly after 6:30am.

Terrified Sophie was then battered black and blue while the men repeatedly shouted “where is it”.

She led them to the safe but got the combination wrong several times, prompting one of the men to threaten to hit her harder.

When she eventually opened it, the men were “cheering like in a football match” and reportedly said "we're going to make a lot from this".

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Her family had left to go on holiday to Gran Canaria that morning and her younger sister, Kirsty, 19, was staying with her boyfriend.

Her friend Emma Austen told Gloucestershire Live: “It was just awful. She was dazed and she had knuckle marks on her head.

“Sophie was sat under her dad’s desk, curling up in a ball. She was thinking, ‘Am I dreaming?"

She added that Ms Wakefield’s parents have been trying to get flights home but have not been able to yet.

“They can’t deal with it too well, being in Gran Canaria,” Mrs Austin said. “They have been ringing me in bits.”

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Her parents have now offered a £5,000 reward for anyone with information.

The men responsible appeared to be Asian and aged between 23 and 27.

Sophie is now staying with family in Devon, because she is too scared to stay in Cheltenham.

Officers are reassuring the public that they believe this was an isolated incident.

Anyone with information should call Gloucestershire Constabulary on 101 or email 101@gloucestershire.police.uk quoting incident 54 of 3 November 2017.