A pensioner attacked as he set off to collect his grandchildren from school felt "let down" after police arrested him thanks to the lies of a violent drug addict.
Renee Weaver, 41, jumped into the victim's car as it reversed off his driveway on a street off Sheil Road, Kensington, on January 29 last year. The convicted robber punched the victim, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, repeatedly before scrabbling around in his pockets, swiping cash and his phone, and threatening to smash his head in with a glass bottle.
Astonishingly, it was the pensioner who was arrested after Weaver, of Vulcan Street in the city centre, lied to officers claiming she was a sex worker and he had assaulted her after refusing to pay up for a sex act.
