A terminally-ill pensioner was mugged as he went to get his hair cut in a Black Country high street.
Roy Weston was robbed of his and his wife’s weekly pension money in broad daylight in Brierley Hill.

The 78-year-old grandfather was pushed from behind by a man and a woman as the thieves pounced on an easy target.

Mr Weston had picked up the pension money from the post office and had walked the short distance to Pepe’s hairdressers in High Street at around 9.20am on Monday. He was mugged as he was about to walk through the door.

The frail victim was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer last year and the disease has spread to his bones.

He was not badly hurt in the mugging but was left shaken.
Mr Weston, who lives in Brierley Hill, told the Express & Star: “I left the wife in the hairdressers and went to the post office.

“I went back to the hairdressers and as I opened the door a man and a woman came from behind me and pushed me into the hairdressers. Before I realised it, my money had gone.”

Mr Weston and his wife Maureen, 76, have been left scared to go into the town centre following the mugging.