A MOTHER of two has been left reliving the moment she was woken to see a man standing in her bedroom, a court heard.

Jaimini Moon was asleep in bed when she was awoken by a loud noise and saw a man shining a torch into her room at around 3.45am.

This week John Paul Gillingham, of Sussex Street, Winchester, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court charged with a robbery that took place on July 9, 2019, at Mrs Moon’s home in Hyde Abbey Road.

Natasha Dardashti, prosecuting, said: “She saw a man in her bedroom with a phone with a torch that had been illuminated.”

The court was told that Mrs Moon screamed, and her husband leapt out of bed and chased the man out of the house.

Ms Dardashti said minutes later: “Mr Gillingham was seen leaving his hostel accommodation, getting out a bike then there is further CCTV from the Londis at the service station making three purchases using Mrs Moon’s contactless card, he attempted to make a fourth purchase but it is declined.”

The 35-year-old has already pleaded guilty to committing fraud by using Mrs Moon’s cards to make purchases over £100 but says that he found the cards.

During the burglary two bank cards were stolen, along with cash and jewellery.

Giving evidence, Mrs Moon said: “My door opened and there was a man standing there with a phone and torch shining into the room.

“I actually thought it was my husband, so I touched him, and it wasn’t, I realised it was someone else in my home and screamed. I screamed ‘there is a man in our house’.

“I just thought he was coming into hurt us. I was scared for my daughters. As soon as I screamed, he ran downstairs and out the door that he entered the house.”

She added: “I still have the recurrence of him walking into my bedroom.”

The court heard that Mrs Moon picked Gillingham out of a photo line up organised by police in the month following the robbery.

She said: “I saw the torching shining and the way he was holding it I could see his face, not as clearly as you expect [but] the height and frame of his face.”

The victim was questioned by Gillingham’s defence barrister Robert Harding who asked whether she could have been mistaken about the identity of the robber, she denied this.

Mrs Moon said the robber managed to get into her house through a door that she had forgotten to lock when trying to get mayfly out of her home.

The trial continues.