Michelle Dewberry: Thieves stole my brother’s trainers... as he lay prone in a car crash

Ben Chapman

By Ben Chapman


Published: 05/09/2024

- 07:18

Updated: 05/09/2024

- 07:23

TV presenter Michelle Dewberry has revealed how thieves stole her brother's shoes....as he lay prone in a car crash.

The GB News presenter made the admission on her programme Dewbs and Co during a segment where she discussed a video showing a gang in Rochdale using a wheelie bin to steal cigarettes and booze from a shop.

The video prompted a debate on crime in the UK, with Dewberry saying the CCTV footage "blew her away."

She told GB News: "How brazen must you be to think, I can just do this and get away with it?

Michelle, the first female winner of BBC show the Apprentice, then described her own appalling personal experiences of crime.

She said: “One of my little brothers in Hull was in a car accident, and he got wedged in. This is a true story, he got wedged in the back of a car.

“The car was wrapped around a tree. Somebody stole the car radio but also, no word of a lie, they then stole the trainers off my brother.“So my brother was trapped in the car, and they stole the trainers off him before the ambulance got there.“I’d forgotten about it, but when I think about it now, how revolting. So maybe society is being like this for quite some time.”

In the shocking video which the programme featured, a masked gang armed with an axe empty the contents of a Co-Op kiosk into a large, blue wheelie bin.

The CCTV, which was released by the police, shows the men jump over the counter of the shop in Rochdale before they empty packets of cigarettes into it.

The four men are then seen wheeling the bin away to a waiting getaway car.

Police said the staff at the Co-op were threatened by the gang, but escaped unhurt. They are now hunting the men, believed to be in their mid-teens to early 20s.

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