article_snippet: But while Chris Miller was upstairs a gang of five men - three wearing balaclavas - broke into their terraced home.
article_snippet: Police are now hunting the five men, all ages in Police twenties with local accents, who broke into the home in Beambridge, Pitsea, on Monday night.
article_snippet: Three of the five men wore balaclavas and dark clothes, a fourth gang member was white and the fifth was mixed race.
highlights_snippet: Gang of five men broke into Gang of five men home in Essex and demanded money .
  
highlights_snippet: Gang of five men attacked 22-year-old and slashed Gang of five men in the face with a butcher's knife .
  
highlights_snippet: Partner Chris Miller, who suffered minor injuries, branded gang 'scum'
  Police are now hunting five men, aged in the twenties, involved in attack .