Pensioner robbed
9:13am Friday 12th October 2007
Comments (0)POLICE are hunting two confidence tricksters, who robbed an 86-year-old woman of £60 at her home at Stockton, near Wylye yesterday.
The woman was at home alone when she answered the door to a man, who told her that there had been a problem with a washing machine at a nearby house and he needed to check the water.
She was asked to kneel down and turn the tap on under the sink whilst he inspected the water coming from the tap. At this point a second man entered the house and both left after about ten minutes, following a further inspection of the water system in the kitchen.
The first man is described as white, aged about 23 or 24, baby-faced with colour in cheeks and smartly dressed. He had an Irish accent.
The second man was white, aged about 45 years, of short stocky build and was wearing a light coloured baseball cap, baggy light coloured workman's trousers with large pockets and a navy fleece.
Both men also wore dark coloured builder's gloves.
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