During the evening of Saturday 8 April 2023, the pensioners were at a house near West Park Road, when a man they did not know entered through the front door.

The male victim, who is in his 80s, was violently assaulted. A woman in her 90s was also threatened before a purse was stolen and the suspect left the scene.

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