{"id":51297,"date":"2024-04-24T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=51297"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:57:03","slug":"elderly-woman-threatened-in-violent-drug-motivated-rotherham-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/elderly-woman-threatened-in-violent-drug-motivated-rotherham-burglary\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman threatened in violent, drug-motivated Rotherham burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An elderly woman has been attacked in an aggravated burglary in Aston, Rotherham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses following the violent incident on All Saints Way on Sunday, 21st April at 12:50AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two men \u2018wearing balaclavas and wielding a hatchet\u2019 gained entry to an undisclosed address on the street in the early hours of the morning and reportedly \u2018demanded drugs\u2019 from an elderly woman before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8134-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8134-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8134-edited-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8134-edited-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8134-edited-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2560px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All Saints Way, Aston. Credit: Isobel Frost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope Tudor, 22, from the neighbouring Worksop Road, Aston, described the burglary as \u2018such a shock\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miss Tudor said: \u201cI\u2019ve always considered Aston a safe area. I\u2019ve lived and worked here for years and never experienced any issues so hearing this is definitely scary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crime occurred less than 200 yards away from Aston Hall Junior &amp; Infant School, which serves children and families in the affected area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement issued via Police UK on 24th April 2024 now lists &#8216;Reduction in dwelling, business and garage burglaries\u2019 as a policing priority for the local policing team at Maltby Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maltby Police Station said: \u201cWe regularly utilise data to map hotspots and patrol those to maximise deterrence. A new area is now identified and we are working with detectives to formulate an operation to make that area safer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8138-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8138-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8138-edited-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8138-edited-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8138-edited-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2560px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All Saints Way, Aston. Credit: Isobel Frost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burglaries remain common in Sheffield and Rotherham in spite of the week-long Operation Calibre crackdown on neighbourhood crime in November 2023, intended to \u2018reduce personal robbery\u2019 nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council lead for Personal Robbery, Commander Richard Smith, said: \u201cPersonal robbery has a devastating impact on victims, leaving them with trauma which can be lasting. We continue to see this impact and it is why tackling personal robbery remains a national policing priority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite these aims, the latest figures show 51 burglaries reported in the Rotherham South area, which covers Aston, in February 2024 alone. Over 700 crimes were reported in the area during this time, with highest figures of those classed as violence and sexual offences; anti-social behaviour; and criminal damage and arson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enquiries are ongoing, and officers are appealing for anyone with CCTV footage or information about the incident to contact the police online or by calling 101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman has been attacked in an aggravated burglary in Aston, Rotherham. South Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses following the violent incident on All Saints Way on Sunday, 21st April at 12:50AM. Two men \u2018wearing balaclavas and wielding a hatchet\u2019 gained entry to an undisclosed address on the street in the early hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":51291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,156],"tags":[498,209,301],"class_list":["post-51297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-top-story-3","tag-aston","tag-burglary","tag-rotherham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51344,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297\/revisions\/51344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}