Predator alert as aged get hit hard

A CORIO pensioner robbed of his savings is urging other older men to be wary of young predators after a string of similar cases across the city’s north.

Peter Hunt has thrown a spotlight on the heartless shakedown by young women in a bid to stop others meeting his fate.

The women gain entry to homes under the guise of needing water or to use a toilet before making sexual advances and taking cash and bank cards.

The women usually arrive in the very early morning.

Elderly victims are sometimes too embarrassed to report the crimes.

“I am prepared to do anything which is legal to put a stop to this because they will not stop, they’ll keep on wrecking people’s lives. One person I heard got into the house but wouldn’t leave for two days,” Mr Hunt said.

“While you watch one, the other goes through your stuff, and men I know haven’t gone to police because they’re embarrassed.”

Mr Hunt has been hit several times.

Twice he drove the women to a shopping centre “just to get them out of my house”, only to be robbed again.

Mr Hunt has lost more than $1000 in cash.

“You can’t get them to leave so you drive them to the shopping centre just to get them out of your house and to avoid any confrontation, then they take your money.

“They are really smart and have the art of human relations down to a tee. They are clever and very hard to embarrass.”

A bank has refunded Mr Hunt some of his lost cash, but another is baulking because the women have his PIN.