A callous thief who shoved her disabled 74-year-old victim out of his wheelchair to rob him of £10 has been jailed for more than three years. Lisa Carmichael targeted her vulnerable victim by posing as a carer then left him lying helpless on the ground while she rummaged round his home.
The drug addict gathered around £10 in loose change before walking past him with the money and leaving him unable to get up off the floor. Graham Beer was eventually able to activate his community alarm and he was found still lying helpless on the ground when police officers arrived on the scene.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told it was the second time she had targeted an elderly man in the same street in the space of less than a fortnight. Sheriff Paul Brown jailed her for 40 months and added a further 12 months supervised release "in order to protect the public from the risk of further serious harm."
