Daily Mail
June 10, 2015
![While the scuzzy female distracts the pensioner (front left), her filthy male accomplice raids her handbag for her purse.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/295AFF5900000578-3111207-image-a-11_1433434978974.jpg)
This is the moment a cruel couple were caught on camera stealing from an elderly woman after distracting her while she shopped in a supermarket.
The 78-year-old pensioner was doing her weekly shop at Aldi, in Bell Green, Coventry, when the despicable thieves struck.
Crystal-clear CCTV footage from May 29 shows a woman approaching the OAP and picking up a bag of potatoes before striking up a conversation with her.
![The thieves are obviously used to doing this and have a strategy worked out between them.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/295AFF0F00000578-3111207-image-m-8_1433434813352.jpg)
While her back is turned the female crook’s partner can then be seen dipping into her personal trolley bag and swiping her purse containing £60.