Woman throttled, beat and robbed elderly man after tricking her way into home

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A woman throttled an elderly man with a length of string and beat him about the head with a heavy glass ashtray before stealing his money after tricking her way into his home, a court heard.As Sheila Sampson's vulnerable victim lay bleeding on the floor, she emptied his wallet and even searched his trouser pockets for loose change, reports Wales Online.Sampson has a history of committing violence, weapons, and dishonesty offences, and at the time she robbed the pensioner in his own home she was out of prison on licence following a previous conviction for robbing a man in the street then falsely claiming he had been one of her "punters", Swansea Crown Court heard.

The 35-year-old has now been made the subject of an extended sentence as a dangerous offender.Dean Pulling, prosecuting, told the court that on January 17 last year the complainant in the case - a man in his 80s - went to watch a football match at the Cross Keys pub in Swansea city centre before walking home to Manselton at around 9.30pm.

He said CCTV footage recovered by police as part of their subsequent investigation showed Sampson arriving by car on the street where the man lived at 10.01pm.

The defendant was then seen "loitering" on the street until the complainant arrived, at which point she asked him if she could use his toilet.