Elderly woman (88) lifted by gardener: 3525 euro

In the Hague are rogue handymen active.

Community police officers Gerard Kiffen and Rob Doorneveld went along with the elderly woman in Zoetermeer. She received last week a handyman at the door, which operated as a sole proprietorship. 'We warn not to engage with characters popping in on spec,' said a police spokesman.

However, the police can not do anything in this case. As long as there is no legal basis for fraud as a ghost bill, it is a civil case is one among civilians. 'We are bound hand and foot,' says a spokesman.

On social media, people expressed their disgust over the incident. 'What an amount.... How could someone do such a thing? Cowardly, 'judge someone on Twitter. 'So we also think about', answers the police officers, who came Wednesday in women.