A 16-YEAR-OLD boy was caught out when he pinched a bag of shopping accidentally left on a bus by a passenger.
The 55-year-old woman forgot her £40 of Primark shopping as she was in a rush to get off the 227 bus she was taking to her home in Beckenham.
Realising her bag was missing, she immediately caught the next bus and followed the one she had left her shopping on to where it terminated in Crystal Palace.
Dismayed to find it was no longer on board, she spoke to Bromley’s Safer Transport Team who identified the youth using CCTV footage.
He was issued with a youth reprimand and the victim was compensated for the full value of the stolen goods.
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