A woman who pleaded guilty to an offence of robbery at the start of this year has had her sentence hearing adjourned again.

Rebecca Oxley, 48, appeared at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday, July 9 via video link.

Oxley admitted in court in January robbing a woman, Anne Chippendale, of cash in Burnley town centre on December 10.

On that occasion, the hearing was adjourned so a psychiatric report could be compiled and so the sentencing judge “has a full picture around her extensive mental health background.”

The judge set a sentencing date of April 23, but that was then pushed to Tuesday of this week.

At the new hearing, it was again adjourned as there was no pre-sentence report.

The next hearing has been scheduled for September 30.

Oxley, of no fixed abode but previously of Nelson and Burnley, has convictions for similar offences, including in March 2022 when she went into a 92-year-old man’s home and took cash to buy drugs for herself and her mother.

Oxley took a small amount of change from the man’s kitchen when she walked into the house uninvited.

In 2012, Oxley was jailed for four years when she pulled then 75-year-old Irene Bracewell to the floor and tried to run away with her purse during an incident in Nelson.

Oxley had approached the woman asking for change but when she declined, she lunged for the purse and dragged Ms Bracewell over.

At that time, she had 58 previous convictions, mostly for theft, including robbing a 60-year-old man and robbing a distant relative’s purse.