Police are warning women shoppers to be vigilant after a series of distraction thefts in supermarket car parks in Devon and Cornwall.
Officers are investigating at least five reports this week, including three in Plymouth and one in Saltash, where lone females have been targeted while loading shopping into their cars.
In each case the woman has been approached by a man asking for directions, usually to the local Post Office. Some have been asked to draw a map on a notepad supplied by the...
