A TERRIFIED Woodsetton woman was subjected to robbery ordeal when three hooded raiders burst into her home.

The widow was in bed watching TV in her home on Fox Street when the gang who were armed with a crowbar forced their way in.

One of the men pined the frightened mother of two to her bed while the others rifled through cupboards demanding money before finally fleeing with jewellery including her late husband's £15,000 gold watch.

The victim told police: "They just wanted money but I kept saying we had not got any. I just kept screaming but they kept saying 'Where is it?'"

She said she told the raiders whose faces were covered with balaclavas that her purse was in the kitchen but they did not bother putting it in their pockets.

Detective Constable Darren Brown, from West Midlands Police, said at the time: "This was an extremely brutal attack on a defenceless woman who should have felt safe in her own home.

"The watch they stole was of extremely sentimental value. It was bought for the 40th birthday of her husband who sadly died five years later."

Ross Underwood of Damson Wharf, Tipton, admitted robbing the 52-year-old woman of jewellery while he and Richard Howell of Carder Crescent, Bilston, further pleaded guilty to carrying out three other raids in the area in three weeks.

The first raid happened on the Orbital Retail Park in Cannock when a driver was dragged from his parked Audi TT by the two men who had their faces covered by scarves.

The damaged car was later recovered from a street in Coseley on August 30 - the day Underwood, 28, and 37-year-old Howell were arrested.

On August 14 the two men were in an armed masked gang who raided a Spar shop in Kingswinford where thousands of pounds worth of cigarettes were taken from a display shelf.

Howell and Underwood were also among three men wearing balaclavas who stole £3,000 worth of cigarettes at the Co-op store in Tividale.

The two men admitted conspiring with others to commit robberies and, in their basis of plea, they admitted they were involved in the incidents in Cannock, Kingswinford and Tividale. Underwood also confessed to taking part in the Woodsetton robbery.

They were both remanded in custody until January 3 by judge Mark Eades at Wolverhampton Crown Court when it is expected they will be sentenced.