article_snippet.sent: Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard how the first victim, a man aged 81, was targeted at about midday on February 25 this year when he was walking back to he sheltered accommodation.
article_snippet.sent: but was caught red-handed.
highlights_snippet.sent: Claimed to be both a council warden and from church to steal cash .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Fleeced three elderly residents of money in three separate attacks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Admitted burglary and was jailed for two and a half years at Minshull Street Crown Court .