STRANGERS who came to the aid of a pensioner after her purse was stolen have been thanked by the victim.
Thelma Hirst, 67, of Saville Road, Gilroyd, was shopping in Arthritis Research UK charity shop, Market Street, Barnsley, last Friday when her purse was snatched from her bag by a thief.
Thelma said she had put her shopping bags on the floor while she was looking at clothing and had noticed a man next to her looking at women’s clothes.
She noticed her purse was missing when she went to pay.
“It was the quickness of it all... I screamed ‘he’s got my bag’.”
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