A THIEF who befriended her elderly neighbour before stealing £60 has been ordered to pay the money back.

Louise Dyer got to know her 75-year-old neighbour in Burnt Ash Hill, Grove Park, when she moved into a flat in Lewisham last year.

Dyer, aged 22, regularly asked to borrow milk and sugar.

And she twice borrowed money which she did not repay.

Then on October 26 last year, the woman noticed £60 missing from her purse after Dyer and a male friend had visited her.

Dyer, now of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to theft.

She was sentenced to 200 hours' community service at Woolwich Crown Court.

Dyer was also told to pay the £60 she had stolen back to her victim.