Blind BBC News Correspondent Fights Off Mugger Outside New Broadcasting House
A blind BBC News Correspondent has said he thwarted a mugger’s attempt to take his phone outside New Broadcasting House. Scroll down for the tweets to see how things played out.
Sean Dilley “took a running jump and dived on the thief, knocked him off his bike and onto the floor” after the mugger robbed him in the early hours of yesterday morning following a night shift.
Dilley was being lauded on Twitter after showing a picture of his bruised knee and cut leg, having eventually reported the robber to the Metropolitan Police.
“A man on a bike just Snatched and stole my iPhone from my hand,” he wrote on Twitter yesterday morning at around 7 a.m. GMT (11 p.m. Pst). “Wrong blind person, wrong day. I Jumped on him, [he was] safely detained and I got my phone back.”
Dilley later clarified that he had given immediate chase after feeling...
Sean Dilley “took a running jump and dived on the thief, knocked him off his bike and onto the floor” after the mugger robbed him in the early hours of yesterday morning following a night shift.
Dilley was being lauded on Twitter after showing a picture of his bruised knee and cut leg, having eventually reported the robber to the Metropolitan Police.
“A man on a bike just Snatched and stole my iPhone from my hand,” he wrote on Twitter yesterday morning at around 7 a.m. GMT (11 p.m. Pst). “Wrong blind person, wrong day. I Jumped on him, [he was] safely detained and I got my phone back.”
Dilley later clarified that he had given immediate chase after feeling...
- 12/28/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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