This is your lucky day: What masked gun raider told terrified woman who was seven months pregnant as he raped her

Police want to speak to this man who was filmed on CCTV in Finsbury Park 30 minutes before the attack

A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint by a burglar who told her it was her 'lucky day'.

The 33-year-old victim was only two months away from giving birth when masked raiders burst into her home and held a sawn-off shotgun to her partner's head.



She was dragged upstairs by one of the three attackers wearing a balaclava.



Despite the desperate pleas of her boyfriend who begged them not to harm the mother-to-be, she was forced to perform a sex act by the masked man, who threatened to shoot the couple if she did not follow his orders.



Last night she told of her terrifying ordeal as police offered a £20,000 reward to capture her depraved attackers.

'I just wanted to protect my baby,' she told the BBC's Crimewatch programme.



'I was absolutely terrified and being so late in the pregnancy I didn't want to get into a fight where they might hurt me or hurt the baby. He said it was my lucky day.'



The victim, from North London, who does not want to be identified, has since given birth to a healthy child. But she said the attack had devastated her life.



'Everything that you believe to be safe is no longer safe. You can't walk

into the bedroom and feel relaxed because you remember that someone was in there who wasn't supposed to be in there.'



The sex attack, which is classified as rape, took place on May 14 last year, but police have only just released details as the victim was too traumatised to speak out at the time.

She was watching television with her 39-year-old boyfriend at 10.30pm when he went to investigate a noise outside the front door of their home in Finsbury Park.

He saw some men wearing scarves and balaclavas at the end of the path and tried to shut the door but they forced their way inside, pushing him to the floor.



Police believe these two men, captured on camera outside a mini-market at the corner of Seven Sisters Road and Durham Road, ten minutes before the attack could be part of the gang

An object in a cloth bag, thought to be a sawn-off shotgun, was held to his head while the gang demanded the keys to the couple's grey Audi TT car.

As his pregnant girlfriend was dragged upstairs, he begged them not to harm her, but one of the men hit him with the butt of the gun.

He told Crimewatch: 'I pleaded, I was shouting, "She's pregnant, she's pregnant, leave off her, tell me what you want".'

The three men left in the Audi after grabbing property including a mobile phone, iPod, cash, debit cards and a laptop.



Police decided to offer the reward after failing to trace the gang. They have released images of three men caught on CCTV at a nearby shop a few minutes before the attack, whom they wish to question.

The area of North London where the attack took place



The sex attacker is described as black, 6ft, aged 18 to 25 and stocky. He wore a black balaclava, black jacket, black tracksuit bottoms and black shoes.

A second man was black or Asian, 5ft 6in and about 18. He wore light grey tracksuit bottoms, black trainers and a zip-up jacket with red sleeves.

The third suspect, who had the gun, was black, 5ft 10in, and aged between 18 and 22. He was wearing burgundy tracksuit bottoms.

Police say they are keen to trace the men, if only to eliminate them from the inquiry.

Details of the incident were revealed at a time when police are battling a surge in burglaries in London, in particular gangs who target houses to steal the keys of luxury cars parked outside.



Detective Inspector Robert Pack, investigating the Finsbury Park case, said: 'Every rape is a very serious crime but what makes this all the more shocking was that the victim was so clearly heavily pregnant.



'Concerns for the unborn baby can only have exacerbated what was already an emotionally and physically traumatic experience.

'Allegiances may have changed since the attack and we would urge anyone with information to contact us.



'I hope there are people out there who are prepared to do the right thing and tell us what they know.'







