Cambridge police in East London have urged residents visiting Cambridge cemetery to ask for a police escort when going to the facility.
This follows an attack on two elderly friends visiting the grave of a loved-one last week.
Willemiena Heyns, who is a resident at Berea Gardens, said she went to the cemetery to clean and lay flowers on her son’s grave and had asked a friend to accompany her.
The 70-year-old said that while at the cemetery they were accosted by two young men armed with knives.
“The grass is so long we did not see them coming. They took my bag which had all my pension money in it and my cellphone. My 74-year-old friend tried to fight them off but he was stabbed in the arm.
“They asked for the car keys and when I refused they stabbed me in the hand,” said Heyns.
Heyns said she eventually gave them the keys and the two men went to the car, opened the boot and took jumper cables…
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