SITTING on the clean and crisp cream settee in what was once her pristine living room, house-proud Nikia Marshall apologises for the smashed screen on the huge flat screen TV hanging on the wall. Around her there’s a scene of carnage , the aftermath of a rampage in broad daylight by a gang of armed men in balaclavas who trashed her home from top to bottom. Her windows are boarded up, the driveway littered with glass, and the once immaculate kitchen is unrecognisable.
The hob is smashed, there’s huge holes in the kitchen cupboard doors and the glass-fronted cabinets. Upstairs, there’s more boards covering her bedroom windows which have also been put through. Nikia , 24, is married to Mike Marshall , 37, whose cousin, Paris Fury , is the wife of heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson.
She claims she was hit and threatened during the violent raid and in an exclusive interview, a plea to catch those responsible, she says: “I’ve got haters, they’re jealous, and that could be a motive. These people are cowards and I want them to be caught. “They’ve cost at least £100,000 worth of damage - How dare they do that? Who do they think they are coming into my house and doing that to me?” The terrifying ordeal began when five men with crowbars surrounded her home in Doncaster , South Yorks, as she slept on the same sofa that she talks from now.
Shocking CCTV footage shows them hurling what appears to be bricks at the upstairs windows before making their way inside, leaving c.