"A machete was stabbed through our bedroom door... I knew I had to jump out of the window with my baby"

A terrified mum had to jump out of her bedroom window while clutching her three-month-old baby boy in her arms after armed men burst into her home in the early hours of the morning.

She had been sleeping upstairs with the newborn and her husband at around 3.30am when the family were suddenly woken to the sound of the kitchen window being smashed downstairs.

Within a matter of seconds, the three thugs had gained entry. It's claimed the dad was forced to hold the bedroom door shut as one of the burglars tried to break it down, kicking it and piercing a huge machete through the wood.

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The new mum, who was recovering from a c-section after giving birth just three months ago, says she was left with no option but to leap out of the upstairs window of their Dukinfield home, with her newborn in her arms, before landing on shards of glass outside.

Her husband also jumped, before they ran into a neighbours, bleeding and injured, and called the emergency services to the scene on Barlow Road, on the morning of August 23.

The pair were both left injured and needing surgery, with their baby thankfully only suffering minor cuts and bruises.

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, the mum described the horror ordeal as a 'blur', but that all she could think about was saving her little boy.

"We heard the sound of our kitchen window being broken into and before we could even react, the sounds of footsteps running upstairs," she said.

"My husband put the baby down on the bed and ran to hold our bedroom door shut. I grabbed the baby and watched him use all his strength to keep the door closed as the man on the other side kept trying to