Pensioner has jewellery and cash stolen

A thief stole gold jewellery worth thousands of pounds after breaking into an elderly woman’s home.

Rings, pendants and bracelets were taken from the property at Riverside Cottages in Comrie, Perth and Kinross, on Tuesday.

Police said the gold, platinum and diamond jewellery is of “huge sentimental value” to the woman, who is in her 80s.

The break-in happened between 1pm and 1:30pm, when cash was also taken, and police want to trace a man in his early 20s wearing a grey and blue hooded who seen in the area at the time.