Cops hunt pensioners after pair’s… in OD

…£8000 newsagent robbery

Oct 20 2008 By Fariha Karim

A PAIR of pensioners are being hunted after they robbed a newsagent of more than £8000.

In a scene worthy of BBC comedy Still Game, two OAPs took the shop’s takings while a third elderly man, who may have been an accomplice, distracted a shop assistant.

The OAPs struck on Thursday afternoon while the woman worked alone in the shop in Glasgow’s west end.

It wasn’t until CCTV tapes were played back that staff realised they’d been robbed.

The female worker, who asked not to be named, said one elderly man came in and asked for help while two more OAPs helped themselves to the takings, utilities cards and phone cards underneath the till.

The 57-year-old woman was left badly shaken but unhurt after the incident.

She said: “When I saw on the tape that they were pensioners – that really surprised me. I just couldn’t believe it.”

The woman told how one first came in and asked for light bulbs, which were at the back of the shop.

She helped him find them and he then asked for several more.

The woman only realised that the takings had gone missing after they had all left.

She said: “The first man went to pay for the bulbs, then said, ‘Don’t bother with the change, put it into the charity box’.

“Then he left and afterwards, I realised everything was gone.”

Mamun-ur-Rashid, owner of the News and Views shop on Byres Road, added: “When I heard what had happened, I thought it would be youngsters. But then I saw from the pictures they were old pensioners.

“They are vagabond pensioners.

From looking at the pictures, it’s a very well-planned thing to have done.

“They took more than £8000. I’m so surprised guys of this maturity would do this.”

A police spokeswoman said: “The men entered the premises and managed to distract a female shop worker.

“They made off with a quantity of cash and other items.”

However, the spokeswoman could not confirm if they were looking for three suspects named Jack, Victor and Winston.

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I dunno. Between this and running a benefits scam I want to know what has got into pensioners in Britain nowadays.

Will