Terrified women wake up to find stranger in their Mercure Manchester hotel room in the dead of night

Two women were left terrified when they woke up in the middle of the night to find a stranger in their hotel room.

The women, both in their early 30s, were sharing a room in the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly hotel last Saturday night, September 17, after travelling over to the city from Hull for a hen party. Both girls, who do not wish to be identified, got back to their twin hotel room on the ninth floor after a night out, before locking the door and heading to bed.

However, shortly after 2am, they woke to discover a man standing at the foot of the bed closest to the door. The terrified pair ushered him out but were too scared to leave the room to see where he went next. The hotel have confirmed they are investigating the incident.

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One of the women told the Manchester Evening News : "He seemed to be very drunk and did not appear to know where he was. He was staggering about. I got out of bed and started gesturing at him to leave.

"My friend was absolutely terrified because she had woken up to find him at the bottom of her bed. It was her scream that woke me up. Eventually he stumbled out of the room and went into the hallway. After what had happened, we were too frightened to leave the room to see where he had gone.

"Neither of us managed to get back to sleep because we were worried he might come back. We had locked the door but somehow he had got in. He did have a door card key in his hand so I can only assume he must have been given it by someone in the hotel as a replacement having lost his original one. Whatever the reason for him having a card key to our room, it doesn't take away from the fact that it could