The incident was the second of three home invasions in the Nowra/Bomaderry area in the space of three days.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, an 88-year-old Bomaderry woman was pushed to the floor during an aggravated robbery, and on Monday night a woman was confronted and robbed in her home at Nowra.

Like all three victims, the West Nowra couple have spoken about their ordeal with the support of the police, in the hope someone will have information that could aid the investigation.

The male resident of the West Nowra property said the intruder spent about an hour ransacking their home and during that time threatened them with a screwdriver.

He said he believed the man was hiding in their house when they locked the door on Sunday night about 10.30pm.

“It was an extremely surreal event,” the resident said.

“It was harrowing. He was in the house for something like an hour ranting and ransacking the place looking for wallets and purses.

“After locking the back door my wife came down the hall, turned on the light and that’s when the intruder came out of hiding, turned off the light and pushed her into the bedroom.

“I had been asleep for about 30 minutes and my first memory was there was a figure in the bedroom but it wasn’t my wife. The scene didn’t make sense.”

At one point the intruder pointed the screwdriver at the woman’s throat and threatened to hurt her if the couple did not tell him where her husband’s wallet was.

They told the offender the man did not have a wallet.

They said the man kept looking out the window as if waiting for someone to arrive in a car to pick him up.

After about an hour, he left.

The police were called and arrived minutes later.

Nowra Police have formed a special task force to investigate the recent aggravated home invasions.

This week police called on the community to be the eyes and ears in their neighbourhoods as an added layer to their own investigations.