THIS was the terrifying moment armed robbers confronted a young man outside his home.

Three masked men – one armed with a machete, one with a Samurai sword and a third feared to be carrying a gun – were caught on CCTV launching the raid at the property near Marsden.

The recording shows them disabling a security light on the garage next to the house.

On the footage, which you can watch at www.examiner.co.uk, they disappear from view before returning for a further investigation.

The weapons can be seen glinting in the light cast by the house as they loiter in the dark during the incident, shortly before midnight on Sunday.

A 22-year-old man was at home with four friends, all in their early 20s, when they were confronted by the robbers, who brandished the weapons at them and demanded the keys to a top-of-the range 4x4 car.

He and his family have asked not to be named because of concerns for their security.

The man, whose parents were out at the time, said: “You don’t expect something like that to happen. It was scary. I feel like I don’t want to be alone in the house now.”

He and his friends were playing cards and watching television when they were alerted to the presence of someone outside by a beeper set off by motion sensors at about 11.40pm.

He said: “We looked outside and couldn’t see anything so sat back down.