殺人d for just £13

By LAURA BIRKIN, Evening 基準

A woman of 85 who served her community as a midwife for 50 years has been killed by muggers for £13.

During her long career Catherine Wrenn 配達するd more than 5,000 babies, 収入 her the love and affection of 世代s of families in Hackney.

But the 深く，強烈に 宗教的な woman, who never married or had children, died in what police called "a deplorable 行為／法令／行動する of inhumanity" on her own doorstep.

She was 始める，決める upon as she returned to her home in Clapton Square, Hackney. 行方不明になる Wrenn had just put the 重要な in the lock when she was 掴むd by 攻撃者s. She was knocked to the ground, 負傷させるing her 長，率いる.

Police say her 捕らえる、獲得する, which 含む／封じ込めるd only a red purse, was taken. Inside were just a few 続けざまに猛撃するs of her 年金.

She was 設立する by 隣人s moments later 低迷d on the ground. Although she 簡潔に 回復するd consciousness, she died at Homerton Hospital three days later.

Pictures from a CCTV camera 逮捕（する）d 行方不明になる Wrenn's final moments as she left her 地元の shop last Wednesday, just minutes before she was 直面するd on her doorstep by the muggers.

探偵，刑事s today 控訴，上告d for anyone who saw her that morning to come 今後.

探偵，刑事 長，指導者 Superintendent John Shatford said: "Catherine was a defenceless 年輩の lady who had never 害（を与える）d anyone in her life.

"This is a deplorable 行為／法令／行動する of inhumanity made even more poignant by the time of year. It seems that Catherine was killed for the measly sum of around £13."

行方不明になる Wrenn had sent out all her Christmas cards, which meant that family and friends were receiving them at the same time as they were 存在 told of the 悲劇.

Bridie Lovett, who had known 行方不明になる Wrenn for nearly 50 years, said her death was "unbelievable".

行方不明になる Lovett 75, said: "She was 簡単に a lovely person and I'm not just 説 that because she was my friend. Catherine was very humble and her life was people, she had a 広大な／多数の／重要な 利益／興味 in them and always saw the good in them.

"Although we both know the 危険s today, 特に in London, she loved living around here. It's terrible."

行方不明になる Wrenn, who 初めは （機の）カム from 郡 Kerry, travelled to England in the 中央の-Thirties to train as a nurse.

She served abroad in the war as an army nurse and afterwards began working as a nurse and then a midwife in Hackney.

行方不明になる Lovett said: "Catherine loved her 職業 and she had a fantastic memory. She would often see someone and know that she had 配達するd a baby in that family. People around here also knew her - she was 井戸／弁護士席 known and liked."

行方不明になる Wrenn was popular at all the churches she …に出席するd over the years, 含むing 後見人 Angels, Mile End and St John the Baptist in Hackney.

Tony and Sheila Cook, who …に出席するd the 後見人 Angel Church with 行方不明になる Wrenn, remembered her as a "lively lady who had time for all".

Mr Cook said: "Her 約束 was a very strong and 肯定的な 面 in her life.

Through the church she was able to give yet more time to others; it was something she just loved to do."

同様に as her 約束, 行方不明になる Wrenn's greatest joy in her life was her family.

甥 Maurice Wrenn spoke of his aunt as like "a second mum to everyone".

Mr Wrenn, 47, from Stoke Newington, said: "Her family gave her joy but her biggest 楽しみ was our happiness.

"Now her 広大な／多数の／重要な-nieces and 甥s, two of whom are my own young children, have had their much-loved aunt taken from them just as they looked 今後 to another happy Christmas together."

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