An Elderly couple were fleeced of more than pounds1,000 by a triopretending to be workmen.
One of the conmen marched the 72-year-old woman to a cash point towithdraw money.
He even told the nervous pensioner - whose hip was shattered eightyears ago by a mugger - he was walking her to the cash point forher own safety. He had earlier driven her 80-year-old husband to hisbank branch in Queen's Cross to withdraw pounds400 for garden androof work the conmen promised to carry out but never finished.
Today the couple's son Aberdeenshire councillor Alastair Bews, said: "What they did to my mum and dad was despicable. They have paidpounds1,070 for very little work."
Police are looking for the men who struck at Beechwood Walk in theCornhill area of Aberdeen.
They initially offered to clean moss off the roof but wantedpounds220 up front.
The elderly couple's cash card was with the bank so their daughterdelivered the money to her parents.
The men did a little work but over the next three days offered todo gardening and slabbing for further payments - one of pounds400and two each of pounds250.
Alastair, a self employed accountant from Portlethen, said: "Theywere very plausible in the beginning and won my parents' trust."
Alastair himself had handed over one of the payments of pounds250.He said his father was driven to his bank branch at Queen's Cross todraw out pounds400.
By this time he and his sister were becoming suspicious and warnedthe men not to take any more money from the parents until the workwas complete.
But a short time later her elderly mum - whose card had beenreturned to her - was marched to an ATM in Foresterhill Road andtold to withdraw pounds250. She could only get pounds200 which shehanded over to the workman.
Alastair said: "My mum told one of the men she was nervous becauseshe had been mugged and he said he would go with her to the cashpoint so that she wouldn't be mugged again. It is disgusting."
The men were driving white M and W registered vans.
One of the men is in his mid to late 20s with scars on his faceand stomach.
Police say the two other men were similar in appearance, in theirlate twenties to early 30s, slim with dark hair and unshaven.
Police are still trying to trace the men.
smcdonald@ajl.co.uk
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