Despicable chocolate box raider preyed on pensioner

  A ‘despicable’ burglar who posed as a handyman and then swiped a pensioner’s life savings from a chocolate box was jailed for four and a half years today (weds). Walter Smith, 57, introduced himself as Jack Smith to his 85-year-old victim and offered to clean her gutter for £350 on 2 May this year. The predatory thief – on licence at the time for burgling a 90-year-old – watched the frail pensioner counting out her cash, which she kept…