An intruder has been warned he faces a jail sentence after he broke into a house and terrified a seven-year-old boy.
Sean Day walked through the back door of the cottage at Pinn, near Sidmouth and the boy found him standing in the living room holding a kitchen knife.
The owner of the house was asleep on a sofa just feet away and Day only fled after the boy called for help from his older brother.
Day, 35, of Lock Close, Sidmouth, admitted burglary, taking a car without consent, and...
