TWO Teignbridge homes were broken into in the early hours of the morning while the owners were inside.

The first incident in Buckland, Newton Abbot saw intruders break into a house where a couple were asleep with their nine month old baby.

In both break-ins, cars were stolen from outside the properties.

The Buckland break-in happened in the early hours of Monday when the car was stolen from the driveway.

It was later recovered nearby but the roof console had been ripped out, thought to be to try to disable the tracking system.

The car owner said: ‘These guys were in our house at 2am whilst me, my wife and our 9 month old baby was asleep.’

The following day, a similar incident which police believe is linked, happened in Dawlish.

Thieves broke into the property at 3.15am while the occupants were in bed.

They heard a noise and described seeing torch light in the hall downstairs.

The owner said: ‘Obviously this was extremely frightening and yes we ran downstairs to confront whatever situation we were going to be faced with.

‘This is our home and how dare they think they can just enter and take what they want.

‘The audacity of these vile specimens is just unbelievable.

‘We had disturbed them and by the time we got downstairs they were already out of the front door and in the car and starting to drive it away.

‘Had we got downstairs 10 seconds earlier it could have been a very different story.’

A black Golf R was stolen from outside.