Thieves jailed over OAP money thefts
A pair of thieves who targeted pensioners leaving a bank in a Shropshire town have been jailed for almost a year each.
The pair carried out two distraction thefts from women in their 80s in Market Drayton, and one from a pensioner in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, stealing a total of £1,078 between November and February.
Ioan Rascarachi, 31, and Denisia Dadacj, 27, both of Nine Elms Lane, Wolverhampton, admitted the three thefts, plus three counts of fraud, at Worcester Magistrates Court yesterday. They were each sentenced to 48 weeks in jail.
The first theft took place on November 25 in Market Drayton, when the two followed an 80-year-old woman as she left the bank. One distracted her while the other stole £500 that she had just taken out.
On February 15 they stole £300 from a 68-year-old man in Ross-on-Wye using the same method, though this time the victim was approached inside the bank. On February 17, in Market Drayton, an 82-year-old woman was followed down an alleyway and they stole her bank card and used it to get £180, £10 and £88 in cash.
