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Three men wearing terrifying Hannibal Lecter masks burst into a Birmingham house and threatened a 15-year-old girl before taking an expensive motorbike.

The trio wore masks similar to the restraint used on serial killer Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, in the film The Silence of The Lambs.

They forced their way into the Victoria Road home of Tim and Anglea Styles at about 3.30pm on Wednesday.

They confronted Mr and Mrs Styles’ daughter, Reanne, before making off with a KTM bike.

Reanne had come home from school and was in her room when she heard a voice downstairs.

She made her way downstairs assuming it was her mother.

To her horror she ran into three men standing in the hallway wearing the masks, one in white, one in blue and one in black.

The men shouted to her that she should quickly run back to her room or she would be seriously hurt.

Today, as police investigated, Mrs Styles, aged 30 spoke about the trauma.

She said: “My daughter is 15 and she is well aware of what the men could have done to her.

“She was obviously absolutely petrified – she’s just shaking.

“She didn’t go to school yesterday and barely slept. She came into our bed at midnight.

“A home should be a safe place. They were definitely targeting the motorbike because there were iPads and computers in the house but these were all left untouched.”

There was no other damage to the house or to the family’s other property.

She and Tim, aged 41, live there with Reanne and their three other children.

“Her dad is obviously livid and furious that his daughter was put in such danger,” she said.

Tim claims to have seen the bike being ridden around the local area by a group of kids while searching for the bike in his van.

Mrs Styles added: “When I left to pick up my younger children from school I spotted a group of young men hanging around on the road.

“I took my large dog with me, an Alaskan malamute, but had the dog been left in the house I think the bike and my daughter might have been safe.”

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said: “The investigation is still in its initial stages and we are investigating this incident as a burglary.

“A forensics team was at the scene on October 14 and officers are going house to house in an effort to retrieve information.”

* Earlier this year a man was sent to prison for robbing a Leeds bus driver at knifepoint while wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask.