‘High-value’ jewellery, cash, stolen from elderly woman in Perth’s east; Albany residents divided on shark cull proposal after fatal attack

Turning to crime news, police are on the hunt for several people suspected of stealing a significant quantity of “high-value” jewellery and money from a woman in her 80s in Perth’s eastern suburbs.

Sometime between 7.30am and 1.30pm on May 28, the offenders forced entry into a home on Coulston Way in Gosnells and rummaged through the victim’s belonging.

She was not home at the time.

Inside a safe, they found a significant amount of cash and large quantity of jewellery, including a sovereign coin bracelet.