A man has been charged with breaking into a home in the middle of the night and threatening a woman with a knife.

Ross MacPherson, 27, of Millfield, Sompting, is in court in Crawley today charged with aggravated burglary, assault, possession of a knife and making threats to kill at an address in Angola Road, Worthing. 

The break-in took place just before midnight on Thursday September 22.

A a man who was known to the victim broke into her property and threatened her with a knife. She was unharmed but extremely shaken.