Constable: Graveside theft 'as low as you can go'
Otago Daily Times
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Save Police are disgusted after a handbag was stolen from a woman's car while she tended a grave site.
The Christchurch pensioner was tending her parents' grave at Dunedin's Andersons Bay Cemetery on Saturday at 3.50pm when the alleged theft occurred.
The victim was just a metre away from her vehicle
when the male is believed to have crawled between gravesites to access an unlocked car door.
He then grabbed her handbag - containing purse, credit cards and cash - before slamming the car door and running off.
Constable John Gilbert said the theft was "one of the lowest acts" he had attended in his decade-long police career.