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A couple who scooped £100,000 on the National Lottery were attacked by masked raiders brandishing knives and steel bars – days after going public with their win.

Lee Davies and Carryann Copestick received a cheque for their scratchcard win in a blaze of publicity at Molineux in Wolverhampton less than a fortnight ago.

But robbers were believed to have read of their good fortune before breaking into their home and terrorising the couple and their three young children.

After disturbing the couple in their bed, the robbers escaped with £11,000-worth of gold and three iPhones.

Lee, aged 27, a shipping clerk at Amazon in Rugeley, said the robbery had traumatised his family.

He said the family were asleep at their home on Wolverhampton’s Scotlands estate on Monday night when the men broke into their house and went up to the couple’s bedroom and demanded money.

He told the Express and Star they were dressed in black, brandished balaclavas, knives and bars and shouted: “Where’s the money? Where’s the gold?”.

They then held a bar up to Carryann, aged 26 and a full-time mum, and told her to get out of bed and show them where the gold was.

The raiders escaped with a large gold chain worth £4,000, a bracelet worth £900, eight rings and a necklace bearing a cherub.

Two iPhone 7s and an iPhone 4S – worth more than £1,500 – were also taken.

Lee said: “They took off pretty quickly and we came down and called the police – we were just so lucky they didn’t wake the children.

“Something like this would have traumatised them for life.”

A £2,000 reward has been offered on Facebook for the return of the jewellery.

Lee said the family felt as if they were “living the dream” after their win on the scratchcard, which was bought at a newsagent in Blackhalve Lane,

They had invested in a house, spent money on clothes and jewellery and began planning their wedding.

Before the win, they had been saving £100-a-month for their big day next June with a honeymoon in Benidorm.

West Midlands Police is investigating the robbery.

Anyone with information should call 101 and quote the crime reference number 20WV/215504H/17.