OXFORD: A traumatised shop worker held hostage by robbers in her house is too scared to stay in the UK and has fled home to Latvia.

The 27-year-old woman, who worked at The Money Shop in Cowley Road, was tied up by three masked men and threatened with a kitchen knife at her home in Ridgefield Road on Thursday.

Shortly afterwards the shop was broken into, but the burglars were unable to find any cash and left empty handed.

Detectives are now working to establish how long the men had been watching the 27-year-old.