jailed for mugging a pensioner - sending the OAP sprawling on to the road in a popular seaside town. Drug addict Lynette McGreachan attacked Bethea Murray in Largs, Ayrshire, after accosting her in the street and asking her for money.
The brave 81-year-old, who walks with the aid of a rollator walker, refused to part with cash as she walked home from a friend's house.And callous McGreachan, 39, followed her and pounced as she tried to get away in Gateside Street, Largs, on October 24 this year.McGreachan carried out the attack in a desperate bid to get cash to buy drugs to fund her addiction.
The details emerged on Tuesday when McGreachan appeared in the dock at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to be sentenced over the attack and a number of other.
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