It was a mild autumn night when Julie Boathe woke up to a large man crawling into her bed.
Paralysed with fear, she pleaded with him to leave her alone, and tried to fight back - but was easily overpowered by the aggressive stranger.
She said: "I said please, please don't come in, please stay out there, just leave. He just wouldn't go. I was trying to push him away, but he was such a big guy. I just had to scream for help."