A thief with 45 previous convictions was described as "heartless" by a judge who jailed her for preying on elderly shoppers in supermarkets.
One of Sharon Rooney's 14 victims was an 81-year-old woman recovering from bowel cancer out shopping in Aldi, Rochdale. A court heard she reached up to a shelf when the mum-of-five said "can I get that for you?"
When the woman got to the tills she realised her purse was missing from her handbag, with Rooney, from Haydock, going on to spend £300 on her bank card, MEN reports.
