Two men have been jailed for nine years for causing “life changing injuries” to a 93 year old woman
during a robbery where she was knocked to the ground and dragged along the road, as she tried to hang on to her handbag after collecting her pension.
However, the “brave and courageous” pensioner has made significant progress in recent weeks. She is now out of her wheelchair and walking with the aid of a Rollator. “One of the males was running off as the other male continued to pull violently at the bag. As a result of the force being applied the woman fell to the ground and one of the males ran off with her bag.
Very shortly after this she heard as female voice screaming and she went back. She saw the elderly female that passed her a short time earlier was the female on Charlemont Terrace screaming for help and she told her she had been mugged.” In a victim impact statement read in to evidence by a member of her family the pensioner said that she was living a “full and independent life” before the robbery.
I could not comprehend how such a horrible act could happen to a 93 year old woman. The multiple fractures I sustained as a result of being knocked to the ground left me in excruciating pain and a prisoner in my home for many months. The victim said she gone to court on April 24th last anticipating that she would have to give evidence at the trial of the two men. However, after the jury was selected the men entered guilty pleas. She said that they could have spared her the ordeal of going to court by entering a plea at an earlier stage.
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