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Daily Mirror
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Bradley Jolly

EXPLAINED: Great grandad 83 on oxygen machine has 1 500 saved for his funeral stolen in raid - The Real Truth

A frail pensioner robbed of the cash he was saving to help his family pay for his funeral said last night: “I don’t feel safe in my home any more.”

John Jordan, 83, who has heart failure and lung disease, was hooked up to an oxygen machine and sleeping when ­the callous raiders broke in.

The great-grandad woke up to find his window had been forced open and the £1,500 he had painstakingly saved to spare his family the burden of his funeral costs was gone.

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