Witness appeal after Burnley robbery claim

11:32am Tuesday 8th July 2008

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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a pensioner claimed she was robbed in an early evening attack.

The 67-year-old woman went to Burnley police station on Saturday with cuts on her face, claiming that she had been robbed by two attackers the previous night.

She told police that £2.70 and her bus pass had been stolen in an incident in the Crosskeys area of Burnley town centre.

However, after studying CCTV footage, police said that the woman may have fallen and lost the cash.

The footage shows the pensioner in the Crosskeys area at around 7.40pm and then on the ground at the subway in the Gannow Top area, where a male and a female, believed to be in their late teens, appear to be assisting her.

The female was wearing a white top and the male was dressed in a hooded top with blue and white horizontal stripes.

DS Vinny De Curtis, said: “We would particularly like to speak to the male and female that were seen with the lady in the Gannow Top area of the town centre between 8pm and 9pm on Friday July 4, so we can be 100 per cent satisfied that she was not robbed.”

Anyone with information should contact DS De Curtis on 01282 472228.