These astonishing pictures show the moment a thief stole an iPhone from the hands of a toddler in a shop in Lancashire.
20-month-old Luella Reid was nestled in her pram watching a Barney The Dinosaur film on the device when the opportunistic pilferer struck.
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The thief sizes up the 20-month-year-old...
Luella's mum, Danielle Hinnigan, 26, had as first thought that she had dropped the phone when she heard heard Luella say: ''Mummy, Barney gone, gone.''
Hinnigan told the Liverpool Echo she was left feeling "sick" and "disgusted" by the actions af the heartless crook.
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...and deciding the tiny tot won't offer too much resistance, swoops down and takes the iPhone...
She said: “Luella loves Barney and was watching a show on my phone. I thought maybe she had dropped it. I never thought someone would go in her pram and take it off her.
“I’m just glad it was just the phone and Luella was OK."
The incident happened at a clothes shop called Hype in Ormskirk town centre at about 12 noon on Saturday September 22.
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...before making a swift exit.
The male thief was wearing glasses, had straight greying dark hair and was wearing a light jacket with dark inner hood and light-coloured trousers.
West Lancashire inspector Andy Willis said: “This is a despicable offence where it appears that the suspect has deliberately targeted a child knowing the crime would be relatively easy to commit.
Anyone with any information should contact Lancashire police on 101 or Crimetoppers on 0800 555 111