QLD: Same man may have attacked three old women, say police

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-1999
QLD: Same man may have attacked three old women, say police

BRISBANE, April 27 AAP - Three separate attacks on elderly women, which left one of them in
a critical condition, were carried out by the same man, police believe.

A 72-year-old woman was fighting for her life in hospital today after a man broke into her
southside Brisbane home on Sunday, police said.

He pushed her to the floor and put a pillow over her face during the incident at Lockhart
Street, Dutton Park.

On Saturday afternoon, a man broke into the home of a 90-year-old woman in Lewis Street,
Woolloongabba, also on the southside.

The offender also demanded money from the woman and stole her purse.

She suffered bruising to her face during the incident.

The same day an offender broke into the home of an 84-year-old woman living in Oxley Road,
Sherwood.

The man grabbed her from behind, covered her mouth and demanded money.

The offender was described as 180cm tall, of Aboriginal appearance, with long, dark hair -
worn in a pony tail - and average build.

Police said all three women gave similar descriptions of their attacker.

The robberies and assaults follow the mugging on Friday of a 91-year-old woman who was
walking down Gilchrist Avenue in the inner northern suburb of Normanby around 2pm, when she
was attacked from behind by one man while another waited in a car.

A police spokesman said the man stole her handbag and got into the car.

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