60 m. ago Dementia patient 'saw woman as daughter', now carer is 'ashamed' of what she did

Amelia Doran used the elderly woman's bank card to take out thousands of pounds from her account over the course of around six months

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4 h. ago Warning after elderly Lanarkshire resident conned by bogus caller imitating police officer

Police say a man called the elderly woman's landline number and falsely claimed he was a detective constable from Hamilton police office.

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62 h. ago Elderly woman died after falling from 'second floor bedroom window' at care home

Enquiries are ongoing

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3 d. ago Man posing as valet kidnapped elderly woman from restaurant and ditched her in a different state, officials say

The 36-year-old man demanded the 75-year-old woman to ‘perform lewd acts,’ warning that he had a gun if she did not comply, prosecutors say

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5 d. ago ‘Evil’ Scots carer who bit OAP spared jail as furious family slam ‘soft sentence’

THE son of a pensioner bitten by his carer has blasted her “soft sentence” after she was struck off but dodged jail. Claire Burnett chomped Sandy Robb, 88, on the hand and shoved and grabbed another elderly woman, causing injury, at a care home in Falkirk in 2023. She got 180 hours’ community service in...

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7 d. ago Stirling crime: Police appeal after elderly woman, 73, robbed on her doorstep in Scottish city

Police are appealing for witnesses.

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7 d. ago Elderly couple who nearly died in Taliban prison hell could return to Afghanistan

British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds were released from Taliban prison last week after being detained for almost eight months - however, they're not ruling out returning

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1 week ago Black writer of TV hit The Bear says elderly white woman had cops cuff him for putting his feet on train seat

Alex O'Keefe, a black writer of the hit TV series The Bear, shared a video to Instagram on Thursday showing an elderly white woman he said got him detained over the way he sat on an MTA train.

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1 week ago ‘We thought we would be executed’: Elderly British couple detained by Taliban say they feared for their lives in jail

Peter and Barbie Reynolds arrived back in the UK after they were freed by the Taliban on Friday

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1 week ago Elderly woman detained by Taliban for months ‘taught fellow female prisoners’

Barbie Reynolds and her husband Peter have told of their ordeal and how they feared they would never be released.

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1 week ago Elderly British couple detained by Taliban for months arrive in UK

Barbie and Peter Reynolds were freed on Friday and landed in the UK on Saturday.

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2 w. ago Moment British coupled detained in Afghanistan by Taliban reunited with daughter

Watch the emotional moment an elderly British couple detained by the Taliban for months were reunited with their daughter.

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2 w. ago Elderly Brit couple detained by Taliban in Afghan hellhole prison finally freed

Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been held in Taliban captivity in Afghanistan for nearly eight months and feared they would die in prison after giving 'their life in service'

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2 w. ago Police launch probe into 'unexplained' deaths of elderly man and woman in sleepy Oxfordshire village

A man in his 80s and a woman in her 70s were found dead at a property in Milton, Abington.

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2 w. ago Where will Madeleine McCann prime suspect roam as he's released and 'may flee Germany'

Christian Brueckner, 48, was released from Sehnde prison near Hannover at 9.15am this morning after serving a seven-year sentence for raping an elderly woman in Portugal

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner 'screams the girl is dead' in chilling outburst

German paedophile Christian Brueckner has been behind bars serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany over the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005.

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3 w. ago Terrifying moment elderly woman attacks neighbour with flare gun in retirement community

A 76-year-old woman allegedly attacked her neighbour while he was walking his dog in their retirement community, and is now been arrested and faces a charge of second-degree assault

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3 w. ago Nursing home staff 'let elderly woman freeze to death alone in room amid storm'

Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Pierce, 73, died from hypothermia after a window was left open in her room by members of staff at a nursing home in Texas during a severe winter storm that cut power to the facility

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4 w. ago Pensioner who died after 'violent sexual assault' in Lancashire hospital was 'unlawfully killed'

"For someone to assault a vulnerable, relatively elderly woman in a hospital setting is really quite difficult to believe"

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4 w. ago Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters

Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians heldOnly one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children. Continue reading...

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