Granddad dies after heartless robbers steal cash he was saving to help family with his funeral
A GRANDDAD has allegedly died of stress after callous burglars raided his home and stole cash he had saved for his funeral.
John Jordan, 84, died of a heart attack after £1,500 was stolen from his home in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
His grieving family told the Mirror John was “scared to leave his own home” after the theft.
His granddaughter Chloe-Ann Preedy, 21, said: “We believe stress caused his death. It became tiring. The burglars did have a lot to play in his death. It changed him.”
John, who didn’t use banks, wanted to keep the money to help his family pay for his funeral.
Instead, he was given a “direct cremation”, meaning the family couldn’t pay their respects.
Last May the burglars forced a window open before taking the cash from the arm of the chair John was sleeping in at 3.50am.
They then took John’s CCTV camera.
A Thames Valley Police spokesperson said: “We received a report of a burglary at a property in Tandra, Milton Keynes, at around 3.50am on March 23 last year.
“An offender forced open a window and stole a quantity of cash from a wallet, which was on the arm of a chair the victim, a man in his eighties, was sleeping in.
“A 47-year-old man from Milton Keynes was arrested on suspicion of burglary on 10 May last year.
“He was initially released on police bail but has since been released with no further action.
“Following an investigation, the report was filed in September last year pending further information coming to light.
“Anyone with further information on this incident should call 101 or make a report on our website, quoting reference number 43220125620.”