Appeal after pensioner distracted and burgled
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after cash was stolen from an 82-year-old man in a distraction burglary.
Two men knocked at the door of the man's house, in Lee Crescent, Ilkeston, at about 3pm yesterday, saying they were from a water company.
He let the pair in and while one man ran the taps in the kitchen, the other man went through the house and took a small amount of money from a handbag. Both men are white, in their 20s, of medium build and about 5ft 8in tall.











Comments
by Irish Mick, Nottingham
Friday, September 03 2010, 8:30AM
“This has got to be one of the worst ever crimes against that anyone could do to another human being, to dupe and con an old people is a despicable act of the lowest denominator, It as got to be punishable by public knowledge of the low life's when they are caught, to often we read of this type of crime going unpunished, and when the perpetrators are finally caught, they are let of with a slap of the wrist instead of the thrashing and deprivation of liberty for a long period of time and then made to wear clothing for a year in public with logos on the garment, telling the public just what evil b-----s they have been and why they are wearing it,We as a society have to recognise that things are changing for the worse in Britain and we have to forget the Human rights of such scummy human beings when they do this kind of sordid and very nasty crime,These criminals sorely deserve a beating.”