A grieving old person got mugged by two women as he was returning from his brother's funeral reception.
Katie Taylor, 37, and another woman knocked down the 69-year-old and took his wallet and phone in Hull last November.
The man told the court that he had never witnessed such a terrible attack before and now feels vulnerable and fragile.
Taylor confessed to the robbery – her 70th offense – and got a sentence of three years and one month in jail.th The prosecutor described how the victim had been to his brother's funeral before going to the reception at a club on Walton Street on November 17.
After an emotional day, the man drank four lagers before starting to walk home at around 6:45pm.
While passing by Granville Street, a woman approached him and asked if she knew him.
Then another woman on a bicycle joined them and they attacked him and took his belongings.
The victim was left with scratches and a cut under his eye, and an employee at a local shop refused to help him.
The attack lasted for three or four minutes before the women ran away with the victim’s things.
He went to an off-licence where an assistant called the police for him.
The man gave a description of the attackers, which the police matched to Taylor's profile, and he identified her at a lineup.
The second attacker has not been identified.
The victim recalled the attack, saying: ‘I have never seen anything as horrible as what happened during this incident.
‘I do not want these people to hurt anyone like they hurt me.’
Cathay Kioko-Gilligan, mitigating, pointed out that Taylor has experienced homelessness, lack of access to medication, and struggle with substance abuse.
She said: ‘She was taking drugs at the time. That was the background and not an excuse, the defendant accepts, for this offending. She wants to express her remorse to the complainant.
‘She was hoping that he would be in attendance at court because she wanted to address him herself, simply to say that she is sorry and that her problems were not an excuse for her behaviour.’
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