Phantom 会葬者 who gatecrashes funerals at her 地元の church before （警察の）手入れ，急襲ing the buffets unmasked as 'eccentric' 65-year-old pensioner

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This is the church-going pensioner unmasked as the phantom 会葬者 who gatecrashes strangers' funerals and （警察の）手入れ，急襲s the buffets.

Theresa Doyle, 65, is said to turn up at funerals before chatting to 親族s of the 死んだ and pouncing on the spread laid on by the family.

Mrs Doyle, who lives alone in a 会議 flat in Slough, Berkshire, spends her days going to funerals, church 集まりs and Sikh 寺s where food is 供給するd for the 貧困の by volunteers.

She fills her Tupperware box with food before leaving on her purple bicycle.?

Unmasked: Phantom 会葬者 Theresa Doyle (pictured) is （刑事）被告 of turning up to strangers' funerals before （警察の）手入れ，急襲ing the buffets

隣人s told how she was mildly eccentric but went to 得点する／非難する／２０s of funerals and wakes where she brazenly scooped up the food on 申し込む／申し出 into a Tesco 捕らえる、獲得する or plastic box.

One 隣人 said: 'She leaves the house in her 有望な, daily 着せる／賦与するs but tucked into the basket on her bike is a 黒人／ボイコット funeral outfit which she changes into at the church 発生地.

'When she arrives at the funeral she changes into the sombre 着せる／賦与するs, goes to the wake and then helps herself to the food, bringing it 支援する and putting it in her freezer.

'Theresa has been doing this for about 14 years now but the bizarre thing is she gatecrashes strangers' funeral and is 完全に brash about it.'

When challenged about her 推論する／理由s for going to so many funerals, grey-haired Mrs Doyle said: 'That's my 商売／仕事. I have to go now, I've somewhere to be.'?

She 辞退するd to say anything else about her 会葬者 gatecrashing.

One of the 最新の 犠牲者s of Mrs Doyle's gatecrashing was Margaret Whitehead who spotted her at the funeral of her daughter Catherine, who died 老年の 42 years from Addison's 病気.

Three weeks after Catherine's death friends and family gathered for the funeral at the 宗教上の Redeemer Church in Slough but Mrs Doyle appeared on a bicycle and later began chatting to guests at the wake.

Mrs Doyle, who lives alone in a 会議 flat in Slough, Berkshire, is said to spend her days going to funerals, church 集まりs and Sikh 寺s

Mrs Whitehead said : 'She got my son Kevin to give her a 解除する from the church to the Irish Centre for the wake.

'There were a lot of people at the funeral from Catherine's work so I just assumed she was a 同僚. When I spoke to her though she told me she used to work with Catherine as a waitress. My daughter never worked as a waitress.'

After the service at the 宗教上の Redeemer Church in Slough, Mrs Whitehead 設立する out the woman is known 地元で for 無作為に appearing at strangers' funerals.

'She was eating from the buffet like there was no tomorrow,' said Mrs Whitehead, of Warfield, 近づく Bracknell.

'At the end of the wake she took out a Tupperware box, filled it up with food and cycled off with it in the basket on her bicycle.'?

にもかかわらず the woman's 申し立てられた／疑わしい sense of 宗教的な 義務 Mrs Whitehead said her 出席 was intrusive and not 許容できる.

'There's 集まり every morning, she doesn't need to go to funerals,' she said.

'She's only going when there's a cheap lunch. She intrudes on people when they are upset and sad.'?

Father Noah Connolly, from 宗教上の Redeemer, said Mrs Doyle told him she felt it her '義務 to …に出席する as many church 集まりs as possible'

Father Noah Connolly, of the 宗教上の Redeemer Church, said the 宗教的な woman for some 推論する／理由 believed it was her 義務 to …に出席する services.

He said: 'Every funeral we have she comes and if there is a 歓迎会 afterwards she makes her way to it without 招待.?

'She is a カトリック教徒 woman and she is 納得させるd she needs to go to as many 集まりs as possible. She has been coming and going since I have been here for the past 14 years. I can't 正確に／まさに say 'you can't come here'.'

Mrs Doyle's 隣人s said she moved to her 現在の 会議-owned home after her house in Ragstone Road in the same town 燃やすd 負かす／撃墜する. They said it was rebuilt and she sold it for £600,000.

They also told how the petite OAP was 定期的に seen 出口ing churches and Sikh centres carrying a Tesco or Boots 捕らえる、獲得する filled with food.?

即座の neighours of Mrs Doyle at Myrtle 三日月, Slough, said it was the only food she would eat in a day, as she did not have a fridge or cooker in her small flat.

When they asked her why she did this, she told them 簡単に: 'I have not done anything to you.'

One of Mrs Doyle's 隣人s, a man who lives on the ground 床に打ち倒す, said: 'We had a funeral here for one of the 居住（者）s and the wife did not want her at the funeral, so she didn't advertise where the wake was going to be and the priest didn't 発表する it.

'Still, Mrs Doyle called somebody to give her a 解除する up there, and as per usual, filled up the boxes and brought them away. She has n o shame at all. They went to 広大な／多数の／重要な lengths to keep her away.

'I saw her coming 負かす／撃墜する the 発生地's driveway on her bike, hide the bike around the 支援する somewhere and, after a quick change she （機の）カム out in a little 黒人／ボイコット number. She went over to some bloke who was there but I don't think she had ever met him before in her life. She 護衛するd him into the pew.'?

He said that when he had 招待するd his friends from a 会議 for pensioners in Slough, she had gatecrashed the ありふれた room in the flats 簡潔に to 'stuff little cakes in her pockets.'

'Everybody did their best to help her 最初, before she started to show her true colours. Now she just takes advantage of everything and everybody.. She has no 尊敬（する）・点 for anybody.'

Mrs Doyle has been 衝突，墜落ing services at the 宗教上の Redeemer Church in Slough, Berkshire, and then tucking into the buffet food at the wakes

He 追加するd he had heard a young woman tell Mrs Doyle she was the 'least pious person she had met in her life' after catching her gatecrashing an 知識's wake.

A woman living on the same 床に打ち倒す said: 'She will go to all these wakes, she tags の上に somebody she doesn't know and gets them to take her into the wake - it can be anyone who is going to the wake.'??

A third 隣人, a woman living on the first 床に打ち倒す, said: 'I 現実に think she is a 高度に intelligent woman. It is the way she speaks, she has a nice Irish accent.

'She goes into funerals with a 運送／保菌者 捕らえる、獲得する and then comes out with food. You know the Tesco 運送／保菌者 捕らえる、獲得するs? I would say that is three ４半期/4分の1s 十分な.'

述べるing the same funeral that the male 隣人 …に出席するd, she said: 'They didn't tell her to leave, nobody would do that at a funeral. What she does is disrespectful, but that would be 平等に so.

'The wife was really upset. She had just buried her husband and she wasn't going to walk up to her and have an argument 説: 'I don't want you here.' It just got left, but that is what she does.'?

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