Mum forced to watch home invasion unfold live on her phone after she set up camera to catch mystery chocolate thief

A young nurse was forced to watch a home invasion unfold live on her phone while she worked the night shift and her family slept in the house.

Jess had recently set up the home security system in their home to try to find out which of her children stole her chocolate from the refrigerator.

But an alert on her phone while she was on a break at 1.30am did not reveal it was the chocolate thief, but showed three youths breaking into her home in Hervey Bay, Queensland.

‘So I called my husband and told him there are three people in the house, it looks like they’re trying to break in. Get up and check on the kids,” Jess said. A current issue.

By the time her husband Nathan realized what was happening, the thieves had already managed to break in.

Jess (left) was forced to watch a horror burglary live on her phone while she worked the night shift and her husband Nathan (right) and their children slept in the house

The CCTV footage captured the three men sneaking through the family home in the dark and grabbing something from the kitchen bench.

Nathan went down to confront the invaders.

“(I) made as much noise as I could as I came out the door to try to scare them off,” he said.

They fled and he chased them down the street for a while to see if he could catch one of them.

When he got home, he noticed the garage door was wide open and his wallet and keys were missing.

Nathan called the police as Jess rushed home to her shocked family.

‘They still have our keys. They don’t know we changed the locks, they don’t know we changed access to our cars,” she said.

“So there’s definitely still a fear that they could come back someday.”

The couple decided to speak out about their horrific ordeal amid Queensland’s ongoing youth crime crisis.

They want the burglary to be a warning to others not to be complacent about the risk of home burglaries.

The CCTV footage captured the thieves sneaking through the family home in the dark and taking something from the kitchen bench – which turned out to be car keys

“We thought we had done everything we needed to do to keep us and our children safe, but it still wasn’t enough,” Jess said.

“They’re not just stealing property, they’re stealing parts of people’s lives… as if they’ve stolen our security. You can’t get that back.’

Although the home security system was set up to catch a chocolate thief, it ultimately saved the family from a much worse fate.