Heroin couple gagged and tied up raid victim, 92

A 92-YEAR-OLD woman was bound, gagged and tied to a chair after a drug addict couple robbed her to feed their heroin habits.

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

The elderly victim was left tied up and locked in her own home in Burnage as vile robbers Leanna Connors and Edward Connors fled with a lifetime's worth of jewellery including her wedding ring.

Edward, 30, a convicted rapist, noticed that the woman had left her window open at about 11pm on a warm June evening last year. He used a set of ladders to climb into her bedroom, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Edward bound her wrists with a dressing gown cord and ordered her downstairs. He then used the house keys to let in his 29-year-old partner.

She took the woman's jewellery off her and ripped out the phone so she couldn't get help. Meanwhile, her partner was upstairs on the hunt for more loot. When he came back downstairs, the 'slight' woman was gagged using a pair of tights and another pair of tights was used to tie up her feet. She was then tied to the chair with a vacuum cleaner cable.