BURGLARS took a dying woman’s phone and purse after the 84-year-old’s frantic husband had asked them for help. Kelly Cassidy and Steven Morris walked into partially-sighted Ronald Crowther’s home as he was upstairs caring for his dying wife Dorothy, who had fallen ill in the night on October 15. The heroin addicts seized the opportunity to strike after seeing a distressed Mr Crowther looking for help in the street at around 3am – even offering to call an ambulance when he told them his wife was ill. But the pair never called an ambulance. Instead they waited until the coast was clear to enter Mr Crowther’s Brierfield home.