A young student was "followed home" before her room was raided by thieves as she was just yards away.
Millie Connell returned home to her Hull flat on Monday after spending the evening studying in the library.
The 20-year-old dropped her stuff into her room and then spent some time in kitchen cooking.
But around 30 minutes later, the University of Hull student discovered her bedroom had been ransacked. Hull Live reports.
The Newland Avenue flat is only a 10 minute drive from where student Libby Squire was last seen alive on Beverley Road in the city.
Her body was pulled from the Humber Estuary last Wednesday, with detectives now treating her death as homicide
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And Millie is now too afraid to return to the student digs.
She said: "I decided to drive home from the library because of everything that is going on at the moment.
“I got the nearest parking spot possible to my flat and I quickly ran down the dark alleyway to get to the stairs leading up to the flat.
“I’m always on guard when walking down the anyway, I really don’t like it because all sorts of people hang about down there, but this time I just kept my head down and got into the flat as soon as possible.
“I went into my bedroom to drop my bags off, and went straight to the kitchen to start cooking dinner. About half an hour later my stuff was gone.
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“I can only think I’ve been followed.
"You can see my bedroom from the main road and it seems as though they have watched me turn the light off and decided it was the right time to run into my bedroom and grab my bag.
“I thought I was going mad at first because I couldn’t find my bag anywhere, so I rang my mum and dad who told me to check with my bank if any transactions had been made.
“That’s when I found out it had been used three times in half an hour, and I just felt so scared I went straight home to Mansfield.
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“I don’t want to be in that room knowing someone has followed me.”
A spokesperson for Humberside Police said: "We received a report of a sneak-in burglary at a flat on Newland Avenue in Hull that happened around 8pm on Monday 25 March.
"A handbag containing a purse and cash along with a laptop was stolen while a woman was in the flat at the time.
"She wasn’t hurt but was left upset. We’d like anyone with any information to contact us."
