Burglars armed with machetes, knuckledusters and knives targeted a couple in Pontefract as their young son slept .
A gang of five men wielding machetes, knuckledusters and knives terrorised a couple whilst their young son was sleeping.
One of the men held a knife to her neck whilst another hit her partner with a machete and a knuckleduster, fracturing his eye socket."I really think they would have killed us both if they'd been there any longer and my little boy would have woken up and found all that," said Ms Davis.She described how she had gone to check whether her son had fallen out of bed after hearing a bang.
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