£20,000 taken from account by con pair in Oswestry
A woman has had £20,000 taken from her account after her bank card was stolen by distraction thieves she let into her home after a shopping trip.
A man and a woman with foreign accents had watched her take money from a machine in the centre of Oswestry and then followed her back to her home where they pretended to ask for directions.
She let the pair, both in their late 20s, in to her kitchen and they took her cash card, replacing it with one they had stolen elsewhere.
Police said there had been a number of similar offences reported in Shrewsbury, Market Drayton and Broseley, and urged people to be vigilant.
The woman, from Salop Street, Oswestry, had been into the town centre on October 5 and had withdrawn some cash from a machine in Church Street.
