Christmas alert for pensioners.POLICE issued a Christmas warning to Coventry pensioners after a 72-year-old woman was mugged minutes after collecting her weekly payment. A man attacked her in Hazel Wood Square, off Bulls Head Lane, in Stoke stoke n. A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter. stoke , grabbing her handbag which contained the pension she had just collected from the Empress Buildings post office. Det Con Pete Stokes said that without wanting to alarm people, he was urging pensioners to be extra careful in the run-up to Christmas when opportunist op·por·tun·ist n. One who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences. op thieves might be looking for targets. He said: "The woman was not injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. , but she was obviously shaken as anyone would be, especially at that age. We would advise pensioners to take someone with them, if possible, when collecting their benefit." |
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