Old age pensioners - How would you feel if your grandmother or your grandfather was mugged for a meagre 5 or 10 pounds?

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Old age pensioners

How would you feel if your grandmother or your grandfather was mugged for a meagre 5 or 10 pounds? Do you think it is right that we have robbers between the ages of 12-20 or even older walking the streets of our country, assaulting the elderly?

We ourselves or part of our family or friends have experienced a robbery in some way. Maybe they’re house has been robbed or themselves whilst walking down the road. Did you know that 7 in 20 people are assaulted abused and robbed each week? And 3 in that 20 are elderly people.

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The level of robbery committed in the year 1970 stood at 6’273 Compared with 121,375 in the year of 2002.

When you see an old lady coming back from collecting her giro you think that she is going to buy her weekly shopping which may be a can of beans a bottle of milk some bread and butter the usual, You don't think the negative do you? You don't think some young youths are going to deprive her or follow her home and set her alight.

For example a week or two ago an elderly lady at ...

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