Thieves have stolen money from a 90-year-old Suffolk man in what police described as a "despicable crime". The man answered a knock at his front door in Newmarket Road, Bury St Edmunds at around 2040 GMT on Wednesday.
A bogus caller, claiming there was an emergency, said the water needed to be turned off in the kitchen.
While the caller kept the victim occupied, a second man was going through his belongings in the living room. The two fled with some money.
A police spokesman said the owner had become suspicious when the first caller could not provide any identification.
It was as he escorted the man out he spotted the second man going through his belongings.
Both men ran out of the house and across the street into Greene Road before the owner, who has not been named, called the police.
Detectives have commended him for asking for identification but are repeating their warning to older people in the county to be on their guard against bogus callers.
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