Man arrested for defrauding elderly woman

A 61-year-old man was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with a telephone scam which saw an 83-year-old woman lose €650.

The woman had called the police last week saying she had received a telephone call to her landline from an “unknown man” asking for money to pay for surgery which the man said her grandson needed to undergo.

A few hours later, an unknown man visited her home and took the €650 in cash from the woman. Having later realised she had been scammed, the woman then called the police...