A mum has told of her "absolute disbelief" after she was covered in excrement by crooks who stole her life savings.
Bad news - Jacqueline Wakefield, with son Luke, holds a copy of yesterday's final edition of the Evening Gazette. Picture: STEVE ARGENT (46604-1)
Jacqueline Wakefield was on top of the world as she drew out nearly £6,000 to pay builders for a kitchen she had worked for more than three years to afford.
Minutes later, she lost the lot to disgusting con-artists, who threw the human muck over a crowd of people as part of a devious plan to distract her.
Police are hunting an olive-skinned couple who wiped the excrement off the mother-of-two's hair as she phoned police from a call-box in St John's Walk, and are believed to have taken the money at 3.30pm on Wednesday.
Mrs Wakefield said: "I was walking to a phone box to call my husband when I felt it land on me. It was human diarrhoea and I was covered.
"The man and the woman were pointing up at the car park, making out that some kids had thrown it, and I thought that was what had happened. Later, I realised they had thrown it, and it was just a trick to distract me."
Mrs Wakefield, who lives with husband Steve and the couple's two teenage sons in Baden Powell Drive, Prettygate, added: "I am absolutely disgusted."
Anyone with information should call Colchester police on 01206 762212.
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Published Friday, December 2, 2005
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