Liz Sherlock died after chasing the robbers
Liz Sherlock was the victim of what has become an everyday crime, but in her case her determination cost her her life.
She and her husband Peter were having coffee in a cafe at Euston Station in London on Easter Monday this year.
They were on their way to see her parents in Bolton. It was her father's birthday.
Suddenly a young woman who was at the next table grabbed Mrs Sherlock's bag.
She chased after the woman who ran out of the station and got into a car with a man at the wheel.
Mrs Sherlock jumped onto the bonnet to try to stop them driving away.
She was on the bonnet for two-and-a-half minutes.
In court the prosecuting barrister said: "She must have been petrified hanging on to a wiper blade for her life."
Rag doll
As onlookers watched in horror, Mrs Sherlock was thrown from the car which then ran over her.
The court was told she was knocked about like a rag doll. She died from multiple injuries.
Mark Woolley, 36, and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jackie Moorhouse were arrested three days later.
They had been together for nine years and were both heroin addicts.
They had funded their £120-a-day habit with a long history of petty crime. He had more than 53 previous convictions, she had 70.
Moorhouse even stole a nurses handbag shortly after giving birth to the couple's son in Holloway Prison in north London.
Mrs Sherlock, a costume designer, worked at the BBC from the 1980s on a number of light entertainment programmes including Last of the Summer Wine, It's A Knockout and Grange Hill. In recent years she had gone freelance.
She was a popular colleague with many friends in the profession.
One longstanding friend from her BBC days, Mary Husband , described her as "very straight - what you saw was what you got with Lizzie".
One of Britain's leading comedy writers Jimmy Perry, one of the men behind the a number of top comedy series including Dad's Army, was also a friend.
He said he was not surprised to hear how she had put up a fight for her bag.
"Lizzie would not let anything pass her by," he said. "She reacted, as Lizzie always did, with courage."
When police arrested Moorhouse they found a note she had written shortly after Mrs Sherlock's death.
It read: "Dear Lord, I have sinned. Forgive me for a terrible sin. God rest the poor woman's soul."