A father-of three has told of his terror when robbers threatened to kill his family during a highway heist.

Darren Wilkinson, 34, was bundled into the back of his car and robbed by two men in Liversedge.

He was repeatedly punched and threatened by one of the men who said he had a knife and demanded cash and credit cards.

Mr Wilkinson was driving to a garage to buy some cigarettes between midnight and 12.30am on Friday, October 5. He was at a junction when he was flagged down by a man who claimed his friend had been hurt.

"He either said his friend was hit or hurt, I can't remember which, and I could see a lad lying half on the pavement and half on the road ahead," said Mr Wilkinson, a CCTV installer.

"I thought he had been knocked down or something and I had no reason to hesitate - it all seemed so genuine.

"Before I got the chance to go over to his friend, the man grabbed me and opened the back door of the car. He told me to get in and I saw the other lad get up from the road. The first man slammed the car door into the side of my head."

Mr Wilkinson threatened by the man who said he had a knife and he would be killed if he didn't do as he was told. He gave the pair £65, but did not have a credit card on him.

"I was pleading with them and telling them I had a young family and not to kill me. I'm not a little lad, but I wouldn't have imagined that anybody could make me feel so scared.

"Before they left, they said, 'if you go to the police, we will find out where you live. We've got your registration number and then your family will get it'."

The robbers walked off down Halifax Road towards Heckmondwike. So terrifying was his ordeal, Mr Wilkinson said he would never again stop at the scene of an accident and was selling his car.

He said: "I don't think I'll ever be the same person again. It has destroyed me and my trust in people. It is not the physical or financial damage they did, but the psychological. I don't even feel safe in my own home now."

Mr Wilkinson said he has barely slept for a week and is having counselling from Victim Support and is now on tablets to help his nerves.

"When they got out of the car, I was paralysed with fear and had pains in my chest. In a way, I'm glad this happened to me and not some old man, because it would have killed him," he said.