‘I laid there screaming’: Grandmother distraught after violent robbing
A Townsville grandmother says she’s too scared to leave her home after being dragged to the ground during a violent handbag snatch.
Police found her alleged attacker in less than 24 hours after recognising his face on security footage.
Days after being released from jail, the serial offender was so desperate for money he allegedly resorted to robbing someone who can’t fight back.
On Monday, 81-year-old Margaret Mulbacher was at Stockland Shopping Centre, when she was allegedly attacked walking through the car park.
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With a hand bandaged, and wounds to her forehead, the elderly woman was emotional as she recalled the trauma to 7 News.
“Whatever it was just whizzed past me, grabbed my purse, took with me with him, then he dropped me,” Ms Mulbacher said.
She told how her head hit the ground and she “laid there screaming for somebody to help”.
“I couldn’t be any sorer than what I am,” the victim cried as she shared her story.
Police instantly recognised the culprit in security video and he was arrested on Tuesday at home.
“It’s a cowardly act on a very innocent victim and a person whose one of the most vulnerable in our community,” Detective Acting Inspector Phill Watts told reporters.
Ms Mulbacher, who recently lost her husband, has always been social – picking up her grandkids from school every day.
But that fierce independence has been stripped by the selfishness of a callous stranger.
“I’m really, really scared now. I’m very, very frightened,” she said.
