AN 88-year-old widow has been left distraught after two bogus callers stole more than £100 from her home.

Edna Johnson, who lives in Gillingham, was fooled into believing the two men were representatives from the waterboard and let them into her home.

The men took more than £100 of her pension and $1100 holiday money from her bedroom.

Edna, who is partly disabled and unable to walk without support, had left the men to look upstairs while she waited in the living room.

When the men left telling Edna they would return in four hours to reconnect the heater she did not have, she checked her bedroom to find clothes and other belongings scattered across the floor.

The pension and holiday savings, which Edna hoped to use to return to Miami Beach, her favourite holiday destination, had been taken from her shopping bag.

Edna, who lives alone, let the men in to the house when they told her a burst water pipe meant all gas heaters in the area must be turned off.

After telling the men, whom she describes as white, in their early 20's and of smart appearance, she did not have a gas heater, Edna was told that they were unable to take her word for it and must check for themselves.

She said: "When you are my age, you tend to trust people. It didn't cross my mind that these men might not be who they said they were.

“I didn't think to ask for any identification and am shocked that someone would do this. I just hope that letting people know about this will stop the same thing happening to them."

This is not the first time Edna has been targeted by burglars. Her purse containing around £90 cash was snatched from her in Rochester market two years ago.