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Man arrested after bank card stolen from pensioner’s home in Woodthorpe

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Police have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of stealing a bank card from a pensioner’s home in Woodthorpe.

Nottinghamshire Police said they were called to Plains Road at around 10am on October 16, 2019 after a the 88-year-old woman helped a man believed to be a delivery driver, deliver a parcel.

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Police have arrested a 29-year-old male

While she delivered the parcel for him, it was reported that he went into her house and stole her bank card.

Detective Sergeant Lauren Morgan, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “The fact that the trust of an elderly member of our community was abused in this way is an outrage.

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“We have been investigating this incident since October and good police work has led to an arrest as part of the case.

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