Pensioner dismembered at his home sought police help the day before his murder

Graham Snell, pictured, visited police the day before his murder to complain about Daniel Walsh, who had moved in to his home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire without permission A killer who spent days dismembering a pensioner’s body ‘took himself away from the horrors’ to visit a massage parlour and go drinking with friends, a court heard. … Read more

Jail house! Pensioner, 74, uses an old prison van to make a summer house for his wife

A retired Grandad built a unique summer house for his wife out of an old prison van. Graham Skidmore, 74, of Barrow Hill, Worcestershire wanted to create somewhere for him and his spouse of 54 years Sandra to unwind. But when he was quoted £42,000 for a conservatory or £12,000 for an outbuilding, he decided … Read more

Coronavirus fears spare pensioner behind £53million elver eel smuggling operation from jail

A pensioner behind a £53million smuggling ring has been spared jail as his lawyer claims he is vulnerable to the coronavirus. Gilbert Khoo, 67, made a fortune smuggling critically endangered elver eels from a barn in Gloucestershire to the Far East. Khoo would import the live baby eels from Spain, hide them under hauls of … Read more

Pensioner, 93, is left badly bruised by ‘cowardly’ masked burglars during shocking raid on her home

Pensioner, 93, is left badly bruised after ‘cowardly’ masked burglar clamped a hand round her mouth to stop her screaming during shocking raid on her home in the middle of the night The 93-year-old woman was attacked while she slept in shocking raid for cash Incident took place in Vauxhall, Liverpool at about 2.25am Wednesday morning … Read more

Come on Chancellor Rishi Sunak, brew up a new pensioner bond

Campaigners are calling on the Government to deliver a lifeline to savers in the Budget. National Savings and Investments (NS&I) last month announced cuts to more than a dozen products, while interest rates offered by High Street banks and building societies have been in freefall for months. Money Mail has long demanded better rates to … Read more

Couple move in home to find pensioner there – and now say ‘landlord’ they paid £800 has disappeared

Young couple moving into their first home together turn up to find a 99-year-old pensioner already living there – and now they say the Gumtree ‘landlord’ they paid £800 has disappeared Amy Da Cruz, 22, and Matthew Morgan, 26, were moving to first home together Couple spoke to a ‘landlord’ over Whatsapp after posting an … Read more

Pensioner, 81, ‘tortured’ her neighbours with parrot in bizarre campaign of harassment, court hears

An 81-year-old pensioner ‘tortured’ her neighbours by encouraging her parrot to sing loudly in a long running campaign of harassment against the couple.  Catherine Searle, 81, began her reign of terror after a parking row with neighbours Paul and Lydia Appleton outside their home in Sevenoaks, Kent. For three years, the pensioner would throw dog poo … Read more

Crossbow killer, 39, is found guilty of murdering pensioner, 74

A crossbow killer has been found guilty of the murder of a pensioner, who was shot in the early hours of Good Friday last year as he adjusted the satellite dish outside his home.   Terence Whall, 39, was convicted of killing Gerald Corrigan, 74, outside his remote farmhouse in Anglesey, north Wales at Mold Crown … Read more

Fears 14-day coronavirus quarantine is too short after pensioner took 27 days to show symptoms 

Fears 14-day coronavirus quarantine is two weeks too short after Chinese pensioner took 27 days to show symptoms A man, 70, drove to Shennongjia, Hubei, where he met his sister on January 24 The Chinese pensioner, known as Jiang, then developed fever on February 20  He tested positive for coronavirus a day later, says government … Read more

Pensioner jailed for smuggling cocaine fears dying in jail after developing suspected breast cancer

A British pensioner who is serving an eight-year sentence for smuggling £1million of cocaine on a cruise has said she fears she will die behind bars. Susan Clarke, 71, is jailed at Portugal’s maximum-security prison EP Tires and is now waiting for biopsy results after she found a lump in her left breast.  The grandmother-of-eight, from Kent, … Read more