article_snippet.sent: Doherty friend Martin Lawrence, 27, also targeted a man aged 99 claiming he owed he money for non existing paving work.
article_snippet.sent: Police said the offending began on November 9, 2013, when Lawrence and another man went to the home of the 99-year old man in Salford claiming to work for a paving company and asked another man if another man wanted any work doing.
article_snippet.sent: A few days later Lawrence returned asking for more money but another man refused.
article_snippet.sent: Lawrence also returned in February and March 2014 asking to do more work on the driveway, but another man refused and called the police.
article_snippet.sent: Later on Lawrence Lawrence went to the home of a 92-year-old man in Salford, pretending to be a charity collector.
article_snippet.sent: On December 9 Lawrence approached a 54-year-old man in Lawrence garden at Lawrence home falsely claiming to be from the police and asked another man if the police could go into another man house to talk about a recent crime.
article_snippet.sent: Lawrence repeatedly targeted two vulnerable elderly men in the sanctity of two vulnerable elderly men own homes, a place where two vulnerable elderly men should feel safe and where two vulnerable elderly men and two vulnerable elderly men families had worked hard to ensure two vulnerable elderly men could still enjoy a high level of independence in two vulnerable elderly men old age. '
article_snippet.sent: As a direct result of what happened here, one of two vulnerable elderly men has had to move out of Lawrence family home, where until this point Lawrence had lived happily, and into residential care, which is simply heart-wrenching for both Lawrence and Lawrence family. '