article_snippet.sent: last year's attack occurred at 10pm on September 15 last year whilst Mr and Mrs Evans' seven-year-old daughter was sleeping in Mrs Evans' seven-year-old daughter upstairs bedroom.
article_snippet.sent: the court, pictured, heard that John and Emma Evans' seven-year-old daughter was sleeping upstairs when both men stormed into both men house, attacking both men dog and threatening both men with violence .
article_snippet.sent: For Devaney, Mr Daniel Prowse said that while violence was threatened against the victims, violence hadn't been used and said that 'mercifully' the child had remained asleep.
article_snippet.sent: For Rolstron, Mr Philip Holden added: 'Mercifully there was no physical injury to the complainants and mercifully the child remained asleep upstairs.
article_snippet.sent: There was a child, a seven-year-old at home, a child, a seven-year-old at home was upstairs, the commotion would not have been easy for a child, a seven-year-old at home to ignore.
article_snippet.sent: The effect of the family dog would have been clear to a child, a seven-year-old at home.
highlights_snippet.sent: The court heard the victims' daughter, 7, was asleep upstairs at the time .