Burglars broke into a house to steal a dad’s £50,000 car while he and his family laid asleep upstairs.

Dad-of-four Scott Everall, 38, was left devastated when he woke up last Friday morning to discover his six-month-old Audi SQ5 had disappeared from his driveway in Summerfields, Sible Hedingham.

Overnight, while he had been asleep upstairs alongside his wife and his four children, aged between 20 and 13, burglars had forced open his front door and taken the car keys from the kitchen.

The next day Mr Everall, a HGV fitter, noticed lights had been left on downstairs but thought it must have been his children, until he noticed his damaged door and missing car.

See this week's Halstead Gazette for the full story.