Man goes viral after spending 24 hours reuniting 93-year-old disabled woman with her purse

A man’s story has gone viral after he spent 24 hours reuniting a 93-year-old disabled woman with her purse.

Paul Young runs a removals business in West Yorkshire, and was working at a sheltered accommodation for the over 55s earlier this month when he found a purse.

The 37-year-old took to Facebook, saying: “Been working in Rycroft green most of the day, just come out and found a purse full of money.

“Really want to get it back to its owner but can’t find the warden so hoping the power of Facebook can help find its owner.

“Just let me know what’s in the purse and you can have it back.”

People were keen to reunite the purse with its owner and the post quickly went viral on social media, and Paul received a phone call from one of the staff members at the flats.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Paul said they told him a disabled lady had lost a purse, so he quickly headed down to the flats to reunite her with her property.

She told Paul that she’d been ‘upset for the whole day’ worrying about the purse.

Paul Young / Facebook

The good Samaritan told the YEP that ‘the smile on her face was enough’, adding: “I hope one day if it ever happens to me or my family, the same thing happens.”

He explained how he got the purse back: “We are regulars there so everyone knows who we are as we have moved so many elders into there.

“Just as we were finishing up on Friday evening we found a purse outside containing money but no ID or bank cards.

“We suspected that it may be one of the residents but couldn’t be sure as many people enter the building.

“I put a post out on Facebook as I’ve got a fair few people on there to share around.

“At the end of the day you don’t know if it’s the last of somebody’s money or it’s all they have left. My partner’s parents live in the same building so I wouldn’t want it to happen to them.

“The post got shared around. The next day we had a phone call from a lady that worked in the Rycroft building who told us that a disabled lady had lost a purse.”