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Article: Bag thieves target elderly.
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- Hemel Gazette (Hemel Hempstead, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2006
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Wednesday, November 8: Brazen bag-snatchers are targeting elderly car passengers in Dacorum as they pull up outside their homes.
The bold thieves have struck three times in the past two weeks, pulling open passenger doors and snatching handbags from the laps of women in their 70s and 80s.
In two cases, the female victims have been sitting in cars on their own driveways when the snatchers struck.
The first bag theft occurred on October 26 when Potten End couple Lilian and Martin McKay, both in their late 70s, pulled onto the driveway of their home.
As the car stopped at around 6.00pm, a young white man, described as aged 16-20, yanked ...