Pensioner Avril Stone was followed by Kevin Owen, a teenager carrying a lead pipe, who caught up with her took her handbag. The Prosecution say this is a case of Owen seeking money so he could get away from home. However the Defence paint a different story of Kevin being a lonely youngster deprived of life outside the home by his over-protective mother and obsessed with TV crime programmes. In their view he panicked when he encountered Mrs Stone and took her handbag without thinking.