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'Heartless' mum-of-five preyed on cancer-hit and disabled shoppers in supermarket scam

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A career thief with 45 previous convictions was branded 'cynical' and 'heartless' by a judge who jailed her for preying on elderly shoppers in supermarkets for their purses.

One of mother-of-five Sharon Rooney's 14 victims was an 81-year-old woman recovering from bowel cancer out shopping in Aldi, Rochdale.

A court heard she reached up to a shelf when Rooney said 'can I get that for you?' When she got to the tills she realised her purse was missing from her handbag, with Rooney going on to spend £300 on her bank card.

The victim said in a statement read out in court: "This crime made me feel extremely frightened and scared by what happened.

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