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A councillor has been confronted on her doorstep by a balaclava-clad gang wielding iron bars who were trying to steal catalytic converters.

Doorbell camera footage caught the moment Madhuri Bedi, 52, stepped outside her home before two men yelled and ran towards her.

She grabbed her dog and shut herself inside as husband Sunil, 54, and son Nihal, 15, held the door closed while the armed pair banged on it for a full minute.

The men, who a neighbour had spotted tampering with a car, did not get into the property in Colnbrook, Berkshire.

Ms Bedi said of the incident, which she has reported: ‘I walked out and saw these men charging towards me with iron rods.

‘I thought that they were coming to cause harm to my family and to rob the property.

‘I had no idea at that time that it was to do with me interrupting them – we only found that out afterwards when we looked at the CCTV footage.’

She added: ‘I had my dog with me, and I had to quickly get him in with me too. It was terrifying, and it still is.’

The councillor said she was surprised the theft took place so early in the evening, but added that similar raids had been reported before.

She said: ‘[The thefts] have been quite common, every now and then you see it pop up on social media. But it’s usually at night, dead of the night, I’ve not heard it happen in the day.’

The three thieves, who she said were very relaxed about the whole situation, managed eventually to get the converter off the vehicle and flee.

Ms Bedi said: ‘They were so blasé about the whole thing, even having enough time to pass each other tools and use their own names.

‘The man changed his voice to sound more “Dalek” like to sound more threatening, so to them it’s a joke.’

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