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Designer runs 2km to retrieve snatched phone - and finds six more stashed in hedge 21 December 2024, 11:01 Izzy stanley us Du, a designer from Tottenham, was walking down a main road in north London when two men rode past her on a bike and snatched her phone. Picture: Izzy Du By Charlie Duffield A designer from North London has recovered her phone, alongside six others, after running after a thief who snatched it. Listen to this article Loading stanley website audio... Izzy Du was walking along a main road this week when two men rode past her on a bike and snatched her phone. She watched as the men rode off before chasing them on foot, running for nearly two kilometres until she saw the bike stop ahead of her. At this point one of the men hopped off and handed her phone to a third person.The rider of the bike sped off and she was able to reach the second thief, detaining him until there was a police presence.Later, she used her laptop to find her phone, which was hidden in a plastic bag stashed behind a hedge.Six other devices, belonging to people who had also been targeted that same morning, were in the stanley deutschland same bag.Read More: 55 drivers arrested for drug driving daily - as transport secretary hints at law changeRead More: US House of Representatives approves and passes bill to Senate hours before shutdown deadlineShe said she searched for the dev Tjyr Trip to New Westminster featured on The Price is Right
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