A MOTHER and her young children have been left terrified after burglars targeted their home for the second time in six months.

In the latest break-in, raiders stole two mountain bikes and other equipment from Charlotte Rhodes’ garage – then dragged away the haul through a big hedge within sight of a police station.

The suspects were captured on Mrs Rhodes’ CCTV, which she had installed after another bike was stolen in the previous burglary.

She said her youngest daughters, Lucy, eight, and Molly, six, had been petrified since the burglary.

Mrs Rhodes, 43, who runs a cleaning business, said: “They are too frightened to sleep in their own bedroom. Lucy is sleeping on my bedroom floor and Molly is in my bed.

“When we played the CCTV on our TV in the living room, and these men suddenly appeared on the screen, the girls burst out crying.

“I am a single mother and I am worried that people are wandering around outside in the dark when I am alone with my children.”

The CCTV shows two men walking up the drive of Mrs Rhodes’ home, near Five Lane Ends, Bradford, at 3.15am last Saturday.

One of them notices the camera, says something to the other and they both cover their faces. They are then seen on a second camera, walking up to the garage.

Mrs Rhodes said it appeared the burglars – who also stole a pressure washer, electric saw, and turbo cycle trainer – escaped with their haul through a 6ft high, 20ft wide hedge in the back garden.

“I don’t know how they did it. They had also cut through some barbed wire at the back. It comes out near to the police station at Eccleshill. I can’t believe their cheek.”

Mrs Rhodes, a keen cyclist, believes the raiders may have been the same ones who broke into her car and stole another expensive bicycle six months earlier.

“I think they have waited for me to replace it,” she said. “I love going out on the bikes. I am gutted.”

Mrs Rhodes, who suffers from asthma, realised the burglars had escaped through the hedge when she found her inhaler and a 10 pound note, which she had kept in a saddle bag of one of the bikes, dropped in the bushes. She said police had checked their CCTV, overlooking the area from the Eccleshill station grounds.

One of the stolen mountain bikes is a grey, white and blue Carrera Vengeance, the other is a silver Saracen with mudguards.

Sgt Khalid Khan, of the Shipley Area Neighbourhood Team, said: “Detailed inquiries have been carried out into this incident, but we do not as yet have any information to link this to the theft in April.

“We appeal to anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area between 9.30am on Friday, October 17, and 10am on Saturday, October 18, to contact the police on 101.”