TWO Barry pensioners were left stunned and upset after thieves snatched their sausage supper.

OAPS Minnie and Emil Ludvigsen of Borough Avenue had their sausage caserole stolen as they shopped in Holton Road.

Minnie, 76, told: "On Friday June 1, we'd just said 'good-bye' to our daughter Angela who'd cooked tea for us as a treat and put it in a microwave dish. We then went to Iceland to do some shopping.

"Emil can't walk very far. He has Alzheimers and bad legs, so he always sits with any shopping we've already done and waits for me.

"I left him sat at the front of the store with the sausage casserole in a bag under his chair but when I got back to him, someone had stolen it!"

The shocked pensioners immediately reported the incident.

Iceland staff were very helpful, but there was a problem with the CCTV that day, and there was no way of knowing who was responsible.

The couple's daughter Jackie Smith is absolutely disgusted.

She said: "I can't believe people can be this cruel. You can see dad isn't well. I'm not saying theft from one person is better than from any other, but when they're pensioners, it seems worse.

"It makes me sick to think someone could be so heartless to steal off harmless old people. Mum was so upset she was crying. It's cowardly and mindless. I hope they feel so guilty they can't sleep at night."

Minnie added: "I was so upset. It wasn't that I'd lost the food. If anyone needed to eat that badly, I wouldn't begrudge them the meal. But it was my daughter's new and expensive microwave bowl, and she'd taken so much time to make the food for us.

"I felt awful. If they'd asked me for the casserole, I would have given it to them, or at least shared it. But they stole it and that's what made me so hurt."