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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() UK: Northern Ireland ![]() Pensioner mugged for 40p ![]() Bridie McGeown: Attackers ought to be locked up ![]() A 72-year-old woman who was beaten and robbed of just 40p has been describing her ordeal.
Speaking from her hospital bed, she said she had only a bottle of medicine and the price of a bus fare in her handbag when she was knocked to the ground and robbed. "I was shocked a bit, more scared than anything," she said. "I was lying on the road. He gave me that big a shake. "I got an awful fright, I did. I thought I was dead." The injured pensioner said that she was speaking about the attack because she wanted people to realise that there was a "real person behind the news headlines". She said about her attackers: "I think they need locked up." ![]() |
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