A GLASGOW family has been left ‘traumatised’ after their flat was ransacked and valuable items were stolen.

Allison Ewing, 61, who lives on Langside Road, was returning from a visit to the Crowne Plaza on Friday evening with her husband to find her daughter standing outside the flat.

The 24-year-old told her parents: “We’ve been robbed.”

Allison told the Glasgow Times: “My son and daughter had been in the house for most of the day and then the pair of them went out to go for a run between about 9.40pm and 10.15pm.

“They came back, and they noticed that a window had been forced open.

“It was fully open, and our cat was sitting in the window and then the cat bolted, and they noticed that the door to the flat we’re in was unlocked and it had swung shut, and they’d left it locked.

“The flat was fully locked up and all the windows shut.”

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Four laptops, a PlayStation 5, a Nintendo switch, a wallet and a handbag were all taken from the flat, and Allison’s daughter immediately called the police.

Allison added: “The police arrived within about an hour and took statements and everything and then the next morning, plainclothes people came and took DNA and fingerprints to eliminate, and then also forensics came an hour or so later.

“We’ve all been a bit shocked to say the least.”

Allison is convinced that their flat was deliberately targeted as her husband can be seen from the window working with his laptop, so potential thieves may be aware of expensive electronic items in the property.

She said: “It’s the first time this has ever happened to us, and we’ve always taken precautions.

“But we think they’ve noticed us with these laptops, and they’ve probably noticed this window of opportunity because the house has hardly been left on its own at all in the six months we’ve been here.

“They must have gone in through the window and then they let themselves out the flat door and then out the main door of the tenement.

“We’re in the basement flat and the window that they’ve forced open, we’ve not been able to get it open in the six months we’ve been there, so they forced it and broke the lock.

“I couldn’t stop shaking last night.”

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Allison and her family have been renting the flat due to a dangerous building preventing them from being able to return to their home, and since the break-in, she is feeling ‘helpless’.

She added: “This is a rental which we’ve had for six months, and we only just found out that we won’t be able to get back into our house for another six months.

“So we’d only just renewed the lease for another six months on this flat.

“My blood pressure was up, I’m on medication for that.

“We’re traumatised basically, feeling sick to my stomach and helpless.”

Allison commended the police officers who assisted the family, but she has had a sleepless night following the break-in.

She said: “The police were lovely, they were super helpful, and the neighbours who we’ve only just been getting to know, they’ve been very helpful.

“I’m just exhausted, I only had three hours' sleep last night.

“You can be as careful as you can be but there’s still people out there who’ll just do what they’re going to do.”

Police Scotland confirmed that they were continuing enquiries into the incident.