POLICE believed an organised gang of cruel tricksters were preying on old folk in the Blackburn area by pretending to be water board officials.
The man escaped with the £400 savings of an 81-year-old lady who suffered from arthritis and fled empty handed from the home of a 61-year-old lady.
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