By Rob Cooper PUBLISHED: 06:48 EST, 27 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:21 EST, 27 February 2014 A schoolgirl has been left scarred after being attacked with a crowbar and a sledgehammer by two masked men who burst into her home. Shannon James, 16, underwent plastic surgery and was left with nerve damage in the wake of the attack on her and her mother Rebecca, 42. The A-level student also needs to take sleeping pills after being left traumatised after the men burst into the £350,000 property in Ashington, near Horsham, West Sussex, posing as police officers.
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Raiders broke into family home shouting 'police, police' and attacked heron
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They used weapons to attack her after she tried to protected her mother
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'Robbers' fled the property in Ashington, West Sussex, empty handed
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A-level pupil forced to take sleeping tablets after being traumatised by attack
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Shannon's family offer £12,000 reward to help catch the culprits
@placeholder added: 'My scar is still quite numb and feels horrible, there's a tingling sensation from where the surgeons had to stretch my skin.