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Evening Post's bid to catch pensioner's killers

The Bristol Evening Post is offering a £1,000 reward to help find two attackers who mugged an 86-year-old great grandmother.

Pensioner Joyce Bryant died two weeks after she was robbed of her handbag, which contained just £5, as she walked near her home.

She broke her hip in the attack and had an operation but never recovered, dying in hospital on October 8.

Twenty police officers are now working on the manslaughter inquiry, but it is hoped that the reward, which is made up of £600 from five local businesses and £400 from the Evening Post's Save Our Streets campaign, will attract fresh information.

It will be paid out to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of the pensioner's killers.

Evening Post editor Mike Lowe said: "Compared to the loss felt by Mrs Bryant's family, £1,000 is an insignificant sum but we hope it will be enough to prompt someone into making that all-important call to police."

The robbery took place out of sight of CCTV cameras, but the seconds before and after the attack were captured and the Evening Post has now published footage of the two attackers.

  • The Evening Post's Save Our Streets campaign was launched in September in a bid to reclaim the city from muggers.

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