Axe-wielding burglar confronted mother and baby by mistake

A BURGLAR armed with an axe confronted a mother and her baby before realising he had broken into the wrong house.

- PHILIP DEWEY

He and his knife-wielding accomplice then told the woman not to call the police or they would come back.Ryan Lee Polverino, 18, and another teenager smashed glass to gain entry to a house in Rhayader, Powys, at around 12.40am on August 2.

‘The woman living at the property heard loud bangs and heard the sound of breaking glass before the front door was opened.

A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Monday heard the victim opened the bedroom door and saw a figure in the hallway wearing a black jacket as well as a boy wearing a grey hoody. Both were wearing snoods covering their faces.