A dad-of-three attracted the suspicions of police after being spotted with a Kinder egg, before throwing it into a garden - and what lay inside made for a shocking discovery.
30.03.2023 - 11:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A 92-year-old woman was bound, gagged and tied to a chair after boyfriend and girlfriend drug addicts robbed her to feed their heroin habits. 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 worth of jewellery including her wedding ring.
Edward Connors, 30, a convicted rapist, had 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.
Connors then bound her wrists with a dressing gown cord and ordered her downstairs. He then used the house keys to let in his partner, 29-year-old Leanna Connors.
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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.
When Connors decided they had plundered enough of her property, they left her tied to the chair in a locked house, having also taken her house key. She was eventually able to free herself and call the police, on Thursday, June 2.
The Connors stole a 22 carat gold wedding ring, another ring, a gold wedding band, and two gold necklaces. Over the coming weeks the woman came to realise just how much jewellery had been stolen by the thieves, some of which were irreplaceable family heirlooms.
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