A 74-YEAR-OLD was left disgusted when she dropped her and her husband’s pension money and teenagers ran off with it.
When the wind blew Rosemary Blues and her husband’s £130 down the road she looked up to see a group of youths picking it up and said when they saw her they scarpered.
She said: “It’s disgusting. I thought they were going to give the money back.”
Mrs Blues and her husband had returned to their home in Wyke Regis in Weymouth after collecting their pension and going shopping at Lidls and buying petrol at Morrisons.
She realised she had dropped her pension on the floor when she was unloading the shopping and the wind started to blow it down the road.
“I said to my husband: ‘That’s all our pension money flying down the road’.
“They were scrabbling around to pick it up and they looked up the road and saw me and they were gone.
“They ran off.”
The couple had collected their pension from Weymouth Post Office in the town centre and had spent some of it before being left with the £130 that blew away. They were intending to use the money on their next food shop and to pay their bills.
Mrs Blues said: “It was our money to buy our food next week but now I’ve got to use my birthday money.
Mrs Blues suffers from a knee injury but she and her husband tried to find the thieves in their car.
They drove to Lanehouse and round the area but are not sure where the youngsters went.
Mr Blues said the money was taken by a group of four or five teenagers aged from 14 to 16 with some of them wearing grey tracksuit tops.
He added: “I got straight in the car and went up Lanehouse and back down Benville Road.
“We followed a bus but they were nowhere to be seen.
“Had the kids brought it back we would’ve given them something. It’s disgusting. If it was me I would’ve picked it up and given it back.”
Colin Huckle, chairman of the Wyke Regis and Rodwell PACT group, called the theft ‘despicable’.
A Dorset Police spokesman confirmed they were informed of the money and were treating the crime as theft by finding.
He appealed for anybody who saw the youths running down or away from Camp Road at around 1.20pm on Monday, September 5, to contact them.
Anybody who has any information about the crime can call Dorset Police on 01305 222222.
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