Burglar posed as window cleaner to rob elderly

A BURGLAR who targeted elderly residents by claiming to be a window cleaner alongside her partner has been jailed.

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Margaret Brown, 40, and her partner Matthew Thain, 34, targeted kind-natured elderly women in order to gain access to their homes.

‘The pair would turn up to an address and ask to clean the home owner's windows or cut their grass. An excuse would then be made to get inside the property.

On Wednesday, Brown, of Allensgreen, Cramlington, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court via link from HMP Low Newton to be sentenced for two counts of burglary. She had pleaded guilty to the offences on the basis that she was present during the burglaries, but did not take any property.