Just had my elderly neighbour round. She was shopping this afternoon in the Belfry Centre, Redhill, when she discovered her purse had been stolen out of her handbag. She had just drawn £100 out of the ATM to buy presents and they must have been watching. Got the cash and her bank card: they spent £900 on the card before she even realised it had gone. The bank picked up on it and there was a message from them on her 'phone when she got home. She's a widow in her '70s and is nervous as her address was in the purse (but no keys fortunately). I think it just sort of hit her a little while ago so she came round to talk about it and for some comfort etc. OB are going to look at CCTV but think 'hoodies' will stop any positive I.D. At least a drop of brandy cheered her up but I think she'll be in a state all over Christmas. As I said 'b**st**ds!'
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The world makes me mad.
Bastards!
Hope she recovers soon.
probably a millwall supporter, you know what there like
Hope she gets over this and still can enjoy xmas, all the best to her in the future hope things pick up soon
Morally bankrupt.
But how did they spend 900 quid on her card? my friend had her purse stolen on Friday and by 7.30 they had spent 350 quidin Tescos. How can they do this without your pin number? I thought chip and pin made it safe?
The people who did it are scum. I hope she gets over it soon. Maybe March51 you could contact victim support for some further help for her.
That people like March51 help their neighbours and SE9Addick offered to help for free shows, to me a least, that we are not morally bankrupt but let's not go down that well worn road again.
Families eh... !
Bas***ds
Seriously robbing an elderly lady - Flippin DISGUSTING!
I HATE THE YOUTH OF TODAY'S ATTITUDE GRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
I really hope she's ok. Hopefully the extra 200 police officers due to be recruited in the surrey area over the next couple of years should go towards rectifying such little bas***ds....
Should be chip pin and sign if they want to make it so secure!
As Henry said, there are scum everywhere who do stuff like this, but 99% of people would not. So the 'morally bankrupt' behaviour of that 1% does not reflect the moral fibre of the country. The thing that I have noticed most in the past few days is the amount of help that people have been giving each other. Admittedly, there is more community spirit where I live compared to most of the South-East, but things aren't that bad yet. Luckily, there are people like March51 about who care.
March, I do a lot of work around crime prevention with the elderly. There's an awful of psychology around elderly victims and they react very, very, differently to the rest of us e.g. the fear of losing their independence leading to them not disclosing to anyone they've been a victim especially the family. As others have suggested I'd really recommend putting her in touch with Victim Support who are trained to get her through these feelings and hopefully she can carry on living a normal, independent life.
Unfortunately, I know of many instances where elderly victims haven't had any support so good on you for being there for her yesterday too.
Great nice to see they care a little bit then.
hmm yes getting drugs off the street is so wrong?!?!?
The police will try to identify these scum but fact is hoodies do mask CCTV which is normally above head height! One day these scum will get caught and learn why you never pick up the soap!
The police will try to identify these scum but fact is hoodies do mask CCTV which is normally above head height! One day these scum will get caught and learn why you never pick up the soap![/quote]
I diddnt mean getting drugs of the street is wrong just feel its a waste of time as they will always be there and arresting people for something as minor as marijuana is a bit of a waste of police time when they could be dealing with real crimes. Drug operations are generally a waste of time as for every source they arrest there will be another one within a week doing the same ballshite ans it all seems like a big waste of time effort and money. As for the latter part of your post i hope your right cos thats all people like this deserve.
They live in the same street and are letting her go to neighbours for Xmas. Sounds like she's been mugged twice with the family being the worse.
'kin 'ell.
no. 1 suspects for me.
Put me down for a contribution and maybe send the Good Lady a bunch of flowers.
It happened to my mother-in-law in Woolwich a couple of months ago. They chuck a £5 note on the floor, point it out to the "victim" and whilst they are picking it up, they are off with your card and making the maximum withdrawal at the nearest cashpoint.
that was on crimewatch lastnight.
I'm sure we could all put in a couple of quid in for her , just to show that there are decent people out there and to give her a good christmas.
Wouldnt you just love 5 minutes alone in a room with the scum who does that.
I might as well tell you about the background to the family 'problems' as I've already gone and mentioned them: Freda bought her house to be near her daughter who suffered a degenerative problem and was constantly in and out of hospital, The husband is next to useless and is mostly in the pub. The two grandaughters are in their twenties and come and go, only seeing Freda when they need subbing for something. Tragically Freda's daughter died and she now sees the family even less than she did before, though she still goes over there to feed their cat and tidy up (with no thanks offered), An example: on her recent birthday we took Freda up to the pub for a meal and the son-in-law was there . She'd had no cards from them and no-one had come over to see her,from 200 yards away! He came over and asked what was occuring and Freda told him so he said "Have you fed the cat?" I honestly don't know how I didn't smack him one, probably because Mrs.M was hanging on to my arm just in case! One of the grandaughters phoned up this afternoon (from over the road) but otherwise they've ignored her, as usual.