{"id":394300,"date":"2026-01-28T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394300\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:35:08","slug":"95-year-old-woman-tied-up-during-vile-attempted-robbery-by-man-who-offered-to-clean-windows-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394300\/","title":{"rendered":"95-year-old woman tied up during &#8216;vile&#8217; attempted robbery by man who offered to clean windows | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 95-year-old woman was tied up during an attempted robbery by a man who offered to clean her windows, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers were called to an address in Salford around 11am on Tuesday after it was reported than a man had demanded cash from a woman.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the man entered the woman&#8217;s property after offering to clean her windows. Police say he then tied her hands together and demand her cash and purse.<\/p>\n<p>The man was disturbed when another woman, who knew the victim, arrived at the property in Little Hulton. No injuries were reported, and the victim is being supported by officers.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Paul Davies, from GMP&#8217;s Salford district, said: &#8220;This was a vile incident in which a woman was tied up and threatened in an address, and we are determined to locate the man responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have appealed for any CCTV, dashcam or doorbell footage from the area at the time &#8211; or information from anyone who saw anything suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>        Datawrapper<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Datawrapper cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Datawrapper cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Datawrapper cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"datawrapper\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"datawrapper\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as being a white male, aged in his late 60s or early 70s. He was wearing a dark raincoat jacket, jeans and dark-coloured shoes. He had short, mousy brown hair which was combed back, no facial hair, glasses, and appeared neat and tidy.<\/p>\n<p>        More on Greater Manchester<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/army-investigates-death-of-outstanding-officer-during-live-firing-training-exercise-13499796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Outstanding&#8217; army officer dies during live firing training exercise<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/boy-14-charged-over-fatal-e-scooter-crash-in-manchester-13499702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boy, 14, charged over fatal e-scooter crash in Manchester<\/a><\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>DI Davies added: &#8220;Thankfully, this was not a more serious situation and we commend the brave actions of the lady&#8217;s friend who confronted the man and called officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we progress this investigation, we are appealing for anyone with any information to please come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could be something big or small &#8211; it all assists in our work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 95-year-old woman was tied up during an attempted robbery by a man who offered to clean her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}