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Footage of a carer abusing a vulnerable pensioner with dementia has been released – following her sentence of six months in jail. Jenny Dady, 29, was meant to be caring for 69-year-old Liz Youngs, who had limited mobility, but video footage revealed how the carer had been pulling the elderly victim’s hair, pushing her knuckles into her … Read more
The daughter of a retired man whose beloved dog was stolen in a violent mugging says her father is in a ‘dark place’ and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Mike Jasper, 66, was walking his dog Ted, a Sprocker Spaniel, in South London in December after visiting his allotment when he was brutally attacked … Read more
The last piece of Nazi-looted art discovered among the collection of a German pensioner has been returned to its rightful owners eight years after it was found. Carl Spitzweg’s drawing ‘Playing the Piano’ was handed over to Christie’s auction house on Tuesday at the request of the heirs of its rightful owner, Henri Hinrichsen, after … Read more
A pensioner drove almost five miles up the wrong side of a busy dual carriageway after becoming ‘lost and confused’ while running an errand for a relative during the pandemic. Edward Burman, 76, from Monkseaton, North Tyneside, caused two crashes after he drove in the wrong direction along the A19 in North Tyneside in his blue … Read more
Pensioner homeowners are missing out on thousands of pounds of income by failing to claim their full entitlement to state benefits. Some 42 per cent of eligible homeowners are failing to claim any benefit at all, losing out on £830 a year on average, according to a report by Just Group, a specialist in retirement products … Read more
Two thugs, both 20, face life in prison after battering a wheelchair-bound pensioner, 69, to death to steal £100 Robert Morrison, 69, was brutally attacked at flat in Kings Heath, Birmingham Pensioner died of pneumonia, contracted due to his fractured ribs from beating Ian Knowles and Ismaila Mohamed, both 20, facing life in prison for … Read more
That’s nuts! Moment friendly squirrel feeds from shielding pensioner’s hand as he welcomes four of the furry creatures into this bedroom during lockdown Michael, 68, from Warrington has been feeding squirrels at his home for months He said he started feeding the squirrels on a window sill, now the enter his home He said they … Read more
A mother known as the ‘Pimlico Pusher’ shoved a pensioner towards a moving bus after a row in a supermarket, a court heard. Amelia Doris, 40, was caught on CCTV attacking Linda Lancaster on Vauxhall Bridge Road, central London, on 29 May 2018. Ms Lancaster, who is in her 60s, had tried to avoid Doris … Read more
Pensioner reveals how she wraps her Christmas tree in CLING FILM with all the decorations still on to save time putting it away Larraine McDougall, 71, wraps her Christmas tree in cling film every year To pack the tree away she keeps the decorations on and stores it in her garage Pensioner, from Newbiggin-by-the-see, Northumberland, began … Read more
A 75-year-old grandfather who bombarded young women with sexually explicit and abusive phone calls asking if they were ‘horny’ has been spared jail. Married Michael Bunce, 75, targeted six women during a nine-month campaign of harassment telling one he wanted to tie her up and others he knew where they lived. One 24-year-old victim who … Read more