Luton stabbing: Have-a-go heroes grab suspect after pensioner is knifed to death in her car

Probe: Police have launched a murder investigation after a pensioner was killed in LutonPA

Heroic passers-by grabbed a man in the street moments after he had allegedly stabbed a woman in her 70s to death while she was in her car.

Police raced to the horrific scene in Luton, Beds, this afternoon and arrested a man after members of the public reportedly held on to him.

The victim was treated by paramedics but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

Police originally arrested a man in his 50s - who is known to the victim - on suspicion of attempted murder.

He was later re-arrested on suspicion of murder after the woman died.

Bedfordshire Police's DCI Jonathan Hutchinson, investigating, said: "We have launched a murder investigation and a team of detectives is now piecing together exactly what happened.

"I would like to reassure residents that this is an isolated incident.

"This is obviously an extremely difficult time for the victim’s family but our officers are working with them to establish what happened prior to the incident."

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Pensioner jailed after conning blind widow out of £2.2m estate

Mogens Hauschildt Photo: Central News By News agencies

10:02AM GMT 13 Nov 2013

A pensioner who went on the run after conning a blind widow out of her £2.2m estate has been jailed for 10 years.

Mogens Hauschildt, 72, posed as a financial advisor in a bid to strip his wealthy family friend of her home and £1m savings, leaving her penniless.

Hauschildt tricked Pamela Schutzmann, 91, into signing over her house in Hampstead, northwest London, by making her sign documents that she could not read due to her poor vision.

The Danish fraudster had won his victim's trust following the death of her husband in 1984 and after marrying her former au pair, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

His grip over her finances was so powerful that he was even able to access accounts set up by Mrs Schutzmann's late husband, a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Austria in the 1930s.

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Hauschildt went on the run after the allegations emerged and was tried and convicted in his absence of forgery, obtaining property by deception, money laundering and six counts of fraud in 2009.

He was finally captured by police in Germany in April this year after a European Warrant was issued for his arrest.

Judge Anna Guggenheim QC, said Hauschildt fleeced Mrs Schutzmann out of money that would have gone to three generations of her family.

"Mrs Schutzmann planned on leaving the wealth she inherited from her late husband's death to her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren - the house was one of those assets," she said.

The judge told the conman: "You were a determined and thoroughly dishonest confidence trickster.

"You presented yourself as knowledgeable and sophisticated in matters of finance and told her that you would protect her interests."

When the judge said Mrs Schutzmann was unaware of Hauschildt's previous conviction for fraud in his native Denmark, he became abusive in the dock.

He shouted at Judge Guggenheim: "I don't want to listen to this s

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Cambridge pensioner fed up with cyclists poured dog mess over man's head

Susan Currall, left, tipped a bag of dog excrement over Michael Ramage, right Photo: SWNS By News agencies

10:40AM GMT 11 Nov 2013

A pensioner tipped a bag of dog excrement over a Cambridge University lecturer as he cycled past her.

Retired civil servant Susan Currall, 75, was fed up with cyclists "hurtling" towards her as she walked her four-year-old lurcher called Rosie near her home, Cambridge Magistrates' Court heard.

She swung the bag of faeces at Michael Ramage, the director of studies for architecture at Sidney Sussex College, as she believed he was cycling too close to her.

She then held up the bag to allow the contents to spill over the American-born lecturer as he tried to pass her on a path on September 12, said prosecutor Paul Brown.

Miss Currall, a former secretary at the British embassy in Washington, followed up her attack by calling him "a big bully" and saying: "Go cry to your mummy".

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Mr Ramage, 40, later made a complaint to police and Currall was quizzed by officers at her home in Trumpington, Cambridge.

She admitted a charge of assault by beating and was given a one year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 costs and £25 compensation to Mr Ramage to cover his dry cleaning bill.

The court heard how the confrontation happened on a dual-use path shared by cyclists and pedestrians alongside the allotments and the guided busway in Trumpington.

Monica Lentin, mitigating, said Currall, often "felt anxious" while walking her dog along the path twice a day because of cyclists speeding past.

She claimed that she was "provoked" by Mr Ramage, who also lives in Trumpington, because he got too close to her.

Mrs Lentin said: "I think many people who are pedestrians in Cambridge would agree that having cyclists and pedestrians together doesn't work.

"The pedestrians do feel extremely harassed and I feel the same way myself.

"What makes it worse is you get lots of young men with powerful bikes riding at speed without any conscience that older people can't get out of the way easily."

She added: "These young people come hurtling towards her

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