A naked nurse was grabbed by the hair and slapped when burglars invaded her home by mistake.

Bradford Crown Court heard the four men had intended to raid an unoccupied property being used as a cannabis factory, but went to the house next door.

The occupier, who had been working a night shift at hospital, was asleep at the house in St Mary’s Mount, Wyke, Bradford, and was woken by the screams of her nine-year-old daughter from downstairs.

Prosecutor Stephen Wood told the court yesterday the girl and her brother, 13, were watching television when the girl answered a knock at the door.

Mr Wood said she was confronted by three men who began searching downstairs. A fourth man went upstairs and the girl bravely tried to go up and help her mum.

Mr Wood said the woman was confronted by a man demanding “where is it, where is it?”

He grabbed her hair, slapped her twice, pushed her back on to the bed and went to a cupboard, saying: “Where’s the weed?”

He ran from the bedroom and was pursued on to the landing by the naked woman. She saw her daughter screaming behind two men who were holding the front door closed as her husband tried to get in.

The intruders let go of the door and the husband fell into the hall. The men fled the house.

Ryan Hanson, 20, was arrested nearby and Luke Jordan, 22, was traced through DNA. They both pleaded guilty to burglary. Their accomplices were never identified.

The court heard there was no evidence that either Hanson or Jordan, both of Huddersfield, were the man in the bedroom.

But Judge Peter Benson said they were part of a team that planned to invade a house where they thought cannabis was being grown.

Judge Benson said the boy had “suffered considerably as a result of your ruthless actions that day.”

Judge Benson said: “I appreciate you didn’t deliberately go into that respectable household intending to cause terror – but that is what you did. You both played a full and active role in what was a very serious offence.”

The judge praised the courage of the little girl and her mother.

He jailed Jordan, who was on licence for offences of robbery and burglary, to six years in jail and locked up Hanson for five years.