Pedersen started crying saying she needed money for “medication”, with the woman eventually offering her £10 to make her leave, Glover said.
Seeing her purse, Pedersen said “what have you got there” and then struck her on the head with one of the wine bottles, the court heard.
Pedersen’s accomplice then stole the handbag, which contained £400 in cash, the woman’s wedding and engagement rings and heart medication, Glover said.
When the woman “extremely bravely” tried to get up to follow them, Pedersen kicked her walking stick away from under her, the court heard.
In a statement read to the court, the woman said she had “physically gone down hill” since the robbery and lived in fear of being attacked again.
“I never used to feel my age but now I do,” the woman said.
The following day, Pedersen was arrested for suspected shoplifting but gave police her sister’s name and details, the court heard, which resulted in officers wasting time and could have led to an innocent woman being arrested.
Judge Thomas Moran said the robbery of a woman Pedersen knew to be “elderly and infirm” was a “particularly wicked and cowardly offence”.