Woman ‘wanted to scream’ when she saw man sneak up behind her in kebab shop CCTV
A young woman described how she ‘wanted to scream’ after she watched CCTV of the moment her phone was stolen in a kebab shop.
Student nurse Chloe McGinn was was queueing for a late night snack when a pickpocket took her iPhone – and she didn’t even realise it was happening.
It was only when she later viewed the takeaway’s CCTV that she realised how she had been robbed.
This was the second time in a month that Chloe, 19, had lost her phone, leaving her with a contract to pay off but no iPhone 13 to show for it.
The young woman, from Armagh in Northern Ireland, said she "panicked" when she checked the CCTV of the Slater Street takeaway.
She watched a man sneak up on her near the right-hand side of the screen, slipping her phone from her pocket as she waited at the kebab shop counter.
Chloe told the Liverpool Echo: "I actually had no words. I just wanted to scream. He did that so easily.
"It was frustrating because if I'd have buttoned my pocket, he wouldn't have been able to get into it.
"Because I lost my phone the last time when I was out, I kept checking my pocket to make sure my phone was there.
"That was when I was in the nightclub. When I was actually in the kebab shop, I just didn't think. I didn't think I needed to."
"I could see everyone," Chloe added. "There was space. You just don't think it's going to happen in a kebab shop."
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"Even watching the video, it was frustrating because I realised how easily it was done.
"Nobody noticed. The amount of people who were in that shop and not one person saw him put his hand in my pocket."
One of the only ways to stay in contact with friends and family in Northern Ireland, Chloe lost her cure for homesickness.
When her previous phone was stolen just before Christmas, she also lost the driving licence she kept in the phone case.
Until she replaced the phone, Chloe would have to travel to and from her placement at Whiston Hospital, waiting alone at bus stops at night with no means of contacting anyone.
Chloe has reported the phone's theft to the police.
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A spokesperson for Merseyside Police told the ECHO: "At around 3.45pm on Monday 17 January officers were called to a report of a stolen item on Slater Street in Liverpool.
"It was reported that at around 3.45am on Sunday 16 January a woman's phone was taken at Mr Kebab on Slater Street.
"Officers are currently carrying out CCTV enquiries."
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact @MerPolCC, or @CrimestoppersUK on 0800 555 111.
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