A ‘career criminal’ with a long history of conning elderly victims out of money has been jailed for more than ten years. Liam Schneider, 46, had been preying on the elderly and vulnerable for much of the last decade, mostly by asking to borrow money he had no intention of repaying.
Schneider, who has multiple convictions for theft and fraud, came to police attention again after a string of similar offences at the start of 2021. On one occasion at a sheltered housing facility in New Basford, he pushed an 86-year-old woman to the ground after barging uninvited into her flat and making a grab for her handbag.
After taking a small amount of cash during the incident on March 9, he fled the scene. Over the previous three months, Schneider had also targeted several other elderly and vulnerable victims in local sheltered housing facilities – mostly by asking for money to pay for electricity.
