DRAMATIC CCTV pictures captured the horrifying moments when masked raiders crept around a pub landlady as she slept.
Susan Page screamed as she watched the footage and saw the men clamber about her and her friend's sleeping and vulnerable forms.
One of the men appeared to be holding a crow bar as they snatched the women's belongings in the Cornishman pub, in Alvaston.
The women were oblivious to the burglary until they played the CCTV footage after realising some of their belongings had gone missing.
Miss Page, 44, told the Derby Telegraph: "I just saw these men wearing balaclavas jump over the bar – it was absolutely horrific. I watched it for about 10 seconds before I started screaming.
"They came right up to us. They took my friend's phone, which was right next to her face."
Jailing one of the burglars, Shaun Hall, for four years, Judge Ebraham Mooncey said watching the footage "must have been the stuff of nightmares".
Hall, who was described as "a career criminal", has a deformity of his left hand which helped police identify him from the footage.
Miss Page, who is landlady of the pub, had enjoyed an evening with her friend that night, and the pair had decided to sleep downstairs in the bar area because there was not enough room in the upstairs flat.
Derby Crown Court heard the men had got into the pub through the upstairs flat, where Ms Page's three teenage children and a friend were sleeping.
When the women awoke, her friend could not find her handbag and Miss Page suggested they watch the pub's CCTV.
The footage showed the men creeping around near the sleeping women for more than 15 minutes. Three minutes after they left, Miss Page got up to go to the bathroom.
The burglars made off with her phone, purse and car keys and her friend's handbag and phone.
Sarah Allen, prosecuting, said Miss Page was like a different person since the burglary on April 21.
She had gone from "a happy, fun-loving person" to someone who felt nervous all the time, said Miss Allen.
"She said 'I felt extremely frightened and very vulnerable – they could have done anything to us when we were asleep," said Miss Allen.
"I'm still thinking about it now. I find it difficult to get off to sleep and am jumpy at any sound'."
Judge Mooncey said to Hall: "You have clearly wrecked her life and no doubt the four years I am passing will not help as far as she is concerned.
"I just hope the victim realises these things happen rarely and not to let someone like Mr Hall ruin her life."
He said at the time of the offence, Hall, of Peterborough Street, Chaddesden, had been on licence for a five-and-a-half-year sentence, which he was given in April 2010 for a number of crimes including burglary.
Judge Mooncey said: "I dare say you will be back before the courts in due course."
Justin Ablott, for Hall, who admitted the burglary, said the 30-year-old had been making good progress in custody.
Mr Ablott said: "He has got himself a job in the servery department, which is a trusted job, and he has been returning drug-free tests."
Following the sentencing, Ms Page said: "I feel a little bit better now that I have seen his face. Sometimes people come into the pub and I wonder if it's them and I would have carried on wondering if I hadn't seen his face in court."
Investigating officer Detective Constable Mike Stott, said the other burglar had not yet been identified but that inquiries were ongoing.
He said: "The CCTV shows how serious and frightening this offence was."
