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| Pensioner is robbed a second time | Pensioner is robbed a second time |
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| A woman in her early 80s has been attacked and robbed in her home in County Armagh for the second time. | A woman in her early 80s has been attacked and robbed in her home in County Armagh for the second time. |
| A gang of up to six men broke into Sadie Parker's house in the Bessbrook area through a window at about 2100 GMT on Tuesday. | |
| She was held down in her living room as the men searched her home. She suffered bruising to her wrists. | She was held down in her living room as the men searched her home. She suffered bruising to her wrists. |
| One of the burglars is described as 50 years old, the others are in their 30s. The men escaped with a sum of money. | One of the burglars is described as 50 years old, the others are in their 30s. The men escaped with a sum of money. |
| A relative, Linda McIvor, said: "Sadie thought they came through the bedroom window, but they came through the kitchen window. | |
| "One of them came in wearing black gloves and knocked her down and she is bruised around her wrists, on her face and her hands. | |
| Sadie used to go out and about, but you very rarely see her now. She is now not going to answer the door - she is going to be really afraid." | |
| Mrs Parker used to live next door to her brother, but he died some months ago and since then she has been going out less and less. | |
| Ulster Unionist assembly member Danny Kennedy said: "The public have to cooperate with the PSNI to ensure that these monsters are brought to book for this." | |
| Sinn Fein Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy said "once again a vulnerable pensioner has been subject to a terrifying ordeal". | Sinn Fein Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy said "once again a vulnerable pensioner has been subject to a terrifying ordeal". |
| "Words cannot describe the anger that I, and indeed the entire community, feel for those within our society who are intent on inflicting fear, injury and mayhem on our most vulnerable community members," he said. | "Words cannot describe the anger that I, and indeed the entire community, feel for those within our society who are intent on inflicting fear, injury and mayhem on our most vulnerable community members," he said. |