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A man has been jailed for more than eight years for stealing a woman’s car while her blind 89-year-old mother was still inside the vehicle.
David Stephenson, 51, was jailed this week for eight years and six months after being found guilty of kidnap, theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving and driving without a licence.
Greater Manchester Police received a call from the daughter of an 89-year-old woman who told them “someone’s took my car and my mum”.
Police said she had left the engine running to keep the heating on in the car to keep her elderly mother warm for 10 minutes while she went to the shops.
Stephenson, of no fixed abode, was “not fazed by the fact a vulnerable elderly woman was in the passenger seat” and …