Pensioner's handbag stolen while tending to husband's grave

The 80-year-old woman was at the grave in St Mary’s Church graveyard, St Mary’s Drive at around 2.35pm yesterday (Tuesday, March 8).

A man ran up to the grave, snatched the woman’s handbag from the ground and made off on a bicycle.

The man is described as white, aged in his mid-20s and was wearing a light grey hooded top and blue tracksuit bottoms.

The woman was not injured but has been left distressed by the incident.

Anyone with any information should call police on 101, quoting incident number 593 of March 8 or email [email protected].