CCTV Appeal after mobile phone theft from McDonalds, Southport

9th May 2019

A pickpocket is being hunted after stealing a young girl’s expensive smartphone from a Southport fast food restaurant.

Lucy Tomlinson has her expensive phone swiped from before her eyes in a distraction robbery by a man at Kew Macdonalds earlier today, Thursday 9 May 2019.

She said “he distracted me whilst he slid my phone off the table and ran to a car with a driver waiting and drove off. The police has been informed but please look out for him as he has stolen many phone from a few people in Merseyside and Lancashire”

Anyone who can identify the man should call 101