LONDON, July 24: Jemima Khan, the wife of Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan escaped an attack by a man, reportedly carrying a knife, who broke into her home here early Tuesday.

Friends of the Khan family quoted by the British media said Jemima feared the masked intruder may had been trying to intimidate her because of her husband’s political activities.

Jemima had to barricade herself in a bedroom with her children, three-year-old Kasim and five-year-old Sulaiman, to take cover from the intruder. After gathering her children, the three huddled together as she made an emergency phone call to police.

She is convinced the raid was not the work of a burglar. She was woken by the sounds of struggle as the man wrestled with a family bodyguard.

During the struggle, the bodyguard managed to use a portable panic button to set off an alarm, which alerted the rest of the house and neighbours. The intruder fled leaving the guard with cuts to the hand and Jemima and her children terrified.