Armed robbers raid home of Real Housewives of Cheshire star and escape with £70,000 haul including designer watch, perfume and handbags

Three men, wielding an axe, knife and hammer, forced their way into mother-of-one Ampika Pickston's gated home in a village near Altrincham, Cheshire (pictured right), and left the reality star's housekeeper fearing for her life. The gang, who were white and in their late 20s and early 30s, dragged Lesley Khan, who was alone, upstairs by the back of the neck and threw her onto a bed, shouting and swearing and demanding to know where the safe was. When she said she didn't know they took Mrs Pickston's £35,000 Harry Winston watch (inset), Mrs Khan's Tag Heuer watch worth £3,000, costume jewellery, a £1,000 bottle of Clive Christian perfume and two Chanel handbags before fleeing.