article_snippet.sent: Police are hunting a thief who stole an 86-year old woman's handbag while old woman prayed at church on Good Friday.
article_snippet.sent: As well as taking one bag, Man tried to steal the contents of two other elderly women's bags before fleeing.
article_snippet.sent: Police have released an e-fit and CCTV footage after a thief stole a pensioner's handbag from a church .
article_snippet.sent: a thief sat down in a pew next to the 86-year-old for the Good Friday service earlier this month.
article_snippet.sent: After grabbing the bag, a thief targeted an 82-year-old woman but an 82-year-old woman was alerted when an 82-year-old woman heard a thief rustling in an 82-year-old woman purse.
article_snippet.sent: As a thief fled the church, a thief tried to snatch a pensioner's handbag from a third woman, also aged 86.
article_snippet.sent: But instinctively a third woman pushed a thief away as a thief tried to pull the bag from a third woman shoulder and a thief ran off.
article_snippet.sent: a thief is described as being a white man, in a thief 40s of a medium build and wearing a grey hooded top.
highlights_snippet.sent: Man then stole the 86-year-old woman in church handbag and tried to snatch two other women's bags .
  