Killed widow CCTV images released

The image shows Ade Pukeliene leaving her office at Canary Wharf

The last CCTV images of a 57-year-old widow who was murdered as she returned to her east London home after a night shift have been released.

Ade Pukeliene was found on Thursday on a pavement in Emerald Close, near Canary Wharf, with head injuries.

Mrs Pukeliene, who worked as a cleaner, was taken to hospital but died later.

Officers believe she was attacked by two men on a scooter who robbed her of her handbag as she left Royal Albert DLR station.

No one has been arrested over the attack.

Mrs Pukeliene who was Lithuanian, lived with her daughter, son-in-law and grandchild, police said.

In a statement her daughter, Gitana Skirmantas, said: "We, as a family, loved my mother very much.

Police are looking for two men in connection with the killing


"She was a hard-working person and was respected by everybody who knew her."

Detectives said the two suspects fled on a gearless scooter from Emerald Close and onto the Becton District Park, close to the junction of Stansfeld Road, Canning Town.

Describing the murder as a "callous attack" Det Ch Insp Carl Mehta said: "This park has a number of exits and it is possible that the riders escaped along a neighbouring street or the A13."

The suspect vehicle, described as silver or light grey in colour with no registration plate, was last spotted at about 0700 GMT on Thursday morning.

The suspects have been described as black, about 5ft 8in to 6ft tall, aged in their late teens or early twenties.

They were wearing either hooded tops or hats and possibly had masked their faces with scarves.

Police added that the pair had been possibly waiting in nearby Jasper Road and Stansfeld Road up to 20 minutes before the attack.
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Plea to catch mother's killers

Gitana Skirmantiene cannot believe her mother has died

The daughter of a 57-year-old cleaner killed in a robbery said she sits waiting for her mother to come home every day.

Gitana Skirmantiene, 35, asked anyone with information about the attack near the east London family home on 28 February to contact police.

Ade Pukeliene died from a severe head injury after two masked men on a moped snatched her handbag in Custom House.

Police said it was probably an opportunist robbery by local thieves.

Speaking four weeks after the fatal attack, Mrs Skirmantiene said her family has been left devastated.


She said: "We don't understand why somebody would attack her. I cannot believe this has happened to my family and my mum.

"I'm not angry, I am just very upset and I cannot understand that my mum is not alive any more.

"I just wait at 6am to see her coming home."

Mrs Pukeliene, a Lithuanian widow who travelled to the UK to be with her family two years ago, lived with her daughter and grandson Vilius, 10, in Emerald Close.

Police said Ade Pukeliene's handbag had nothing of value in it


Mrs Pukeliene was attacked at about 0645 GMT as she returned home from her job at a bank in the Canary Wharf complex.

Detectives believe two youths riding a silver moped without registration plates were behind the attack.

Several commuters witnessed the two men escaping across the nearby Becton District Park and detectives want to trace the exact route they took.

Det Ch Insp Carl Mehta said it is likely other young people involved in petty crime may know who is responsible.

He said: "The tragic thing is Ade's handbag contained nothing of any value. She kept her money in her coat.

"There was no mobile - simply her Oyster card, her identity card and some personal belongings."
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