A bungling thief was left red-faced after he tried to make off with £1,600 worth of mobile phones but couldn't escape the store - because the door locked behind him.
Afzul has owned Phone Market for 24 years and has never had an incident like this before. He sent the video to a family Whatsapp group, where it was then shared to Facebook in the hopes of identifying the man and immediately began to go viral. Afzal described that the response has been totally overwhelming, but it has also been largely positive.
He said:"99.99 per cent of the comments have been saying well done and commending our forgiveness. Some people have been asking 'Why didn't you beat him up?', but we would never do that. I hope I have showed people what humanity is - there's more to the story than this and if we had acted out. It would just have been another story of violence."People who do things like this, they do it for a reason - they could be under-privileged, etc.
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