Author Topic: Police issue warning of prisoner likely to re-offend  (Read 705 times)

celeste

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-42693758

Police have warned residents that a newly released prisoner is "likely to start targeting elderly people in door-to-door scams" even before she has committed any new crimes.

In an unusual move, officers in Bury, Greater Manchester issued the alert on social media about the unnamed woman.

The post, which has since been removed, said she "may fall back into her old ways" after her recent stretch in jail.

Police said they were looking into how the novel warning had been issued.

The message, posted on Facebook on 12 January, urged people in the region not to let the woman into their homes.




It claimed that the woman was known to knock on the doors of "elderly or vulnerable people" before asking them to lend her money to visit her sick father in hospital.

She is then said to steal anything of value within reach.
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Re: Police issue warning of prisoner likely to re-offend
« Reply #1 on: 00:06:27, 17/01/18 »
Okay, Officer Dibble, so which woman would that be, then? What is she called? What does she look like? How are her intended victims (and it sounds like there certainly will be victims) supposed to recognise her?


The obvious question that comes to mind is why is this individual being put back on the streets in the complete expectation that she is "likely" to start wrecking the lives of vulnerable innocents again double-pronto? Sadly, I don't actually need an answer, because I know what the reason is only too well. I think most of us do, deep down.