A MUM armed with a metal tool chased two burglars from her home.

Jade Trigg grabbed the ratchet and pursued the men through the house and into the garden.

The men jumped over the back fence and fled, leaving Miss Trigg furious.

The mother-of-two said she pulled up outside her home in High Road, Benfleet, and saw a man standing in her bedroom with the light on.

Miss Trigg, 29, said: “I wish I had got hold of them. I jumped out of the car and ran into the house as they made their way out the back.

“I ran outside because I could see they were heading to the garden and grabbed a ratchet by the patio and chased after them. I was so furious.”

The burglars smashed their way through the kitchen door and stole a Samsung Galaxy tablet before being disturbed at about 4.40pm on Wednesday.

Miss Trigg said: “I was so angry and kept thinking, how dare you violate my property?

They only took the kids’ tablet’ but they ransacked the bedroom. I think they panicked when they saw me through the window. They knew I was after them. I was screaming abuse.”

Miss Trigg, her partner and their children, aged four and seven, bought the house earlier this year.

She said: “We’d always rented before. What happened is terrible and so unfair and seems to be happening a lot around here.

“After I chased the men, I ran to the kids, who were crying in the car. They were scared – they had just seen a man in my bedroom window.’’ Miss Trigg said one of the suspects has fair, or grey, hair with sunken eyes.

She said: “I wish I had a proper look of them. But by the time they were in the garden, it was pitch black.

“I just saw red and thought how dare they come into my home? I feel violated.”

The burglary comes just a week after seven homes were ransacked in two days in Thundersley and Benfleet.

Police believe several burglars are working together and may be using a vehicle to travel between victims’ homes.

Miss Trigg’s friend, Emma Roberts, 32, of Kents Hill Road, Benfleet, was burgled last week. The raiders stole Tiffany jewellery, sunglasses, a watch, an iPad and perfume totalling thousands of pounds.

Mrs Roberts said: “They smashed the french doors and ransacked the place. It’s horrible and it’s really made me think.

“We need to get an alarm now. I just don’t feel safe in my own house. We’ve lived here seven years and just didn’t expect it. The children are scared and keep asking if the burglars are going to come back. It’s such a violation.

They came into the house and went through our stuff.”