A frightened great grandmother is too scared to stay at her home after believing she was smashed over the head with a housebrick while laid in bed.
Pam Murphy, 69, said she awoke to find four balaclava-clad men in her home and blood trickling down her face.
She was sleeping in her bed in the living room when she heard a bang and then a felt a blow to her head.
"I was scared to move," Pam, of Manor Crescent, Grimethorpe, said.
'I opened my eyes a bit to see what was going on and there were four, I think they were men, looking about.
"I felt the blood coming down my face and I thought they were going to kill me I was that frightened.
"I'd say they're just four cowards. That's what I think. I was begging 'please, please don't hurt me' and I didn't know if they would or not."
Pam said they searched the house with one man demanding to know where her money was.
One intruder tried to take her safe, she said but it was securely fastened to the floor.
Instead the group made off with her handbag but Pam said there was no money in it and her son found half of its contents strewn on a nearby field.
Reeling from the attack, Pam grabbed her mobile phone which was tucked under her pillow. She went to call the police but was too scared the robbers might hear her.
When the men had gone she found a brick between her bed and the settee in the front room. Her living room window had also been smashed.
"After what's happened I stay here in the day time and stop at my son's at night," she said.
"I daren't come back home; I'm afraid of it happening again."
Pam's family is now offering a reward of £5,000 for information about the attack on July 27.
Pam said there were two thin men and two smaller men who made up the group.
Police said the man who demanded money spoke with a Yorkshire accent.
Anyone who saw anything suspicious is urged to call police on 101 quoting incident number 177 of July 28.
Alternatively the can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800555111.
