80-year-old pensioner robbed twice in a day

A despairing pensioner who was mugged and burgled on the same day said: “I can’t believe Britain has gone down the plughole like this.”

Hazel Lovick, 80, was targeted by street robbers in the morning.

She then went to church – and found her house had been raided when she returned home.

In the first incident, two thugs pounced near Hazel’s home in Croydon, South London, snatching her handbag off her zimmer frame. They fled with the bag containing £130, cards and keys.

Two hours later she found her home ransacked and £200 she was saving for family birthday presents stolen. She believed the muggers had used the front door keys in her bag to get into the house to steal even more.

Hazel said: “To be robbed was bad enough, but to come home and find I’d been burgled in the same day was unbelievable – just terrible. I don’t know what to think of the state of Britain today. It never used to be like this.”