Police are hunting a bogus carer who stole an elderly woman’s handbag in Gateshead.
At around 9.30am on Monday, April 11, a woman went into a home on Friarside Crescent in Rowlands Gill and told the elderly woman inside she was from a care provider and proceeded to steal a handbag and chequebook. Northumbria Police have now launched an investigation and have appealed for help from the public to locate the suspect.
In their investigations so far, officers have found that the victim, aged 90, let the woman inside the house and spoke to her in the living room for around 30 minutes, before she left her alone and went into the kitchen. However, when she returned, the woman had already left and the victim later discovered her handbag and chequebook were missing.
