A MAN is being hunted after a break-in at a property in Burnham-on-Sea.

Police have issued an e-fit of a man who was allegedly found by the occupants in the downstairs bedroom of a property on Gloucester Road at around 9.40pm on September 13. 

The offender fled the property after being challenged by the residents. 

Police said nothing is believed to have been stolen in the incident.

The man is described as white, approximately 30-years-old, about 5ft 10ins tall and of average build.

He had short facial hair and wore a dark coloured woolly hat.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "As part of our inquiry specialist crime scene investigators have examined the property and house to house enquiries have been carried out.

"Anyone who recognises the man in the E-fit is asked to contact Investigations via 101, providing the call handler with the reference 5217209982."