Gold Coast mum wakes to find burglar standing at end of her bed

A Gold Coast mother has relived the terrifying moment she woke up to find an intruder standing at the end of her bed. What had just happened has left her devastated and struggling to sleep.

A Gold Coast mother has relived the terrifying moment she woke up to find a burglar standing over her bed after he had just ransacked her home.

Teena Ross was sound asleep on Sunday morning while two men went about stealing almost everything of value from the ground floor of her Upper Coomera home. She woke to find one of the men, standing at the foot of her bed, watching her sleep.

It’s believed the thieves broke in through an unlocked door.

Ms Ross only moved into the newly built home three weeks ago and her insurance policy was only due to start this week. But the single mum is defiantly declaring she won’t be victimised by the callous thieves.

Teena Ross' Upper Coomera home was ransacked over the weekend. She woke up to find someone standing at the foot of her bed, watching her sleep.

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“It was just after 6am, normally I would have my little boy here, but he was with his dad and thankfully my 16-year-old daughter was away from home as well,” Ms Ross said.

“I heard movement downstairs, I thought my daughter must have come home.

“I figured it was my daughter moving around, my bedroom door cracked, but sometimes she’ll do that to see if I’m awake, or if I want a coffee, I just rolled over to see what she wanted and there’s this guy standing at the end of my bed watching me.”

Ms Ross told the Bulletin she bolted upright out of bed, causing the man watching her sleep to turn and run from the room. She spotted another man just outside her bedroom looking through her bookcase. He also ran.

“Waking up to a man in my room is mind-numbingly terrifying,” she said. “He just stood there, I sat up and I said, ‘who the f--k are you?’, and he just stood there. I moved to get out of bed and he headed for the door and there was another guy standing out on the landing … they both bolted down the stairs.”

Teena Ross says she has been struggling to sleep since the disturbing home invasion.

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The pair ran out a side door and took off in a car loaded with Ms Ross’s belongings.

“I almost caught them, to be honest, I wasn’t thinking, I don’t know what I would have done if I got my hands on them,” Ms Ross said.

“It wasn’t until I came back inside that I realised they hadn’t just been upstairs, the media room was empty, they took a 55 inch TV, PlayStation 4, the surround sound system it was massive, they would have had to spend some time in here. They took random things as well, like shoes, three cushions, just random things.

“My brother is staying with me at the moment, to help me move in. I’ve only been in here three weeks, he’s out in the garage, they took his laptop from out there, they took his mobile phone that was 10cm away from his head, he was asleep in there.”

Ms Ross said it was devastating to have the home she worked hard to get built and had been living in for only three weeks ransacked in a robbery that also saw the theft of some cherished items from her late husband.

“My husband had an allen key set, a toolbox, little bits and pieces from our businesses, and he’s gone now,” she said.

“I can’t replace those memories, they might just be tools to those people, but that’s all I’ve got left of him, it’s stuff that he used, he touched.

“I’m having trouble sleeping … someone was in our space.

“I’m pretty resilient, I’ve been through a lot, I’ll just work hard and get it all back.”

If you saw a small white car with licence plate 194 YCM in Upper Coomera on Sunday morning, or have any information about this incident, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.