A DISABLED grandmother arrived home from her brother's funeral to find her home ransacked and all her Christmas presents stolen. Heartbroken Mary Morris above revealed today that it was the second blow within just hours of the cremation.

Mary Morris was devastated when she got home after the funeral to find all the presents she had bought for her 14 grandchildren had been stolen.

The 50-year-old woman, who suffers from arthritis and walks with the aid of a stick, had spent a year building up the stock of presents during special shopping trips.

The burglary, after she had attended her brother Brian McGrath's cremation at Overdale's West Chapel, off Chorley New Road, was the second time that the family were crime victims on the same day. As Brian's service was taking place, sick thugs smashed a window of a car belonging to Mary's son, David, which was parked in the private road to the crematorium.

Today, Mrs Morris said: "I just hope that my brother haunts them. If they knew who he was they should be very frightened because he probably will.

"Everybody felt they were at their lowest after the funeral service and then finding the smashed car window. I didn't think I could feel any worse.

"But when I realised what had happened I just felt terrible. It made me feel sick to my stomach."

The grieving grandmother says £250 worth of presents, including jewellery and CDs, were snatched by the burglars, as well as her television and video.

The only Christmas presents the thieves left behind in her bungalow in Hollin Acre, Westhoughton, were those too big to carry.

But she has vowed to fight back: "I won't let these people make me a prisoner in my own home. I won't let them win. I'm a family orientated woman and I've had lots of support over the weekend following what happened."

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