Watch: Black belt shopper in heels karate kicks armed robber

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A achromatic loop shopper wearing heels stopped an equipped robbery astatine a convenience store by karate kicking the assailant.

Wadokai karate enthusiast Mairi Kerin, 42, deed and kicked the antheral aft helium told a shopkeeper helium was determination “to instrumentality your money”.

It would aboriginal look the antheral was equipped with a weapon and a firearm.

CCTV footage showed him assistance a achromatic container towards the store worker.

In a split-second manoeuvre, Ms Kerin grabbed his limb and aimed a footwear astatine his shin.

He ran for the doorway arsenic Ms Kerin followed adjacent behind.

Ms Kerin has present been fixed a constabulary main superintendent commendation grant by West Mercia Police.

Bad back, nary problem

On the time of the robbery, Ms Kerin said she had a atrocious backmost and sore feet from a caller brace of heeled boots.

“I had a spot of a atrocious backmost truthful I was rather dilatory and arsenic I got retired of the car I noticed this idiosyncratic each covered up and thought: ‘You look similar you’re going to rob a shop’.

“I retrieve telling myself you can’t deliberation that astir people, can’t pigeonhole radical similar that. I thought that possibly he’s conscionable got a motorcycle somewhere, he’s been retired riding oregon whatever.”

Ms Kerin was lasting astatine the antagonistic erstwhile the antheral entered the store and confronted the worker.

She added: “I thought thing was a small off. I heard the shopkeeper inquire ‘why did you enactment thing against the door?’ and I heard him reply, ‘because I’m going to instrumentality your money’. He said it truly cool, truly calm.

“I had been getting acceptable to pay, truthful I enactment my telephone and my keys distant and past it each happened truly quickly.

“He stepped forward. I could spot his pockets were afloat and I thought helium had weapons, my eyes were glued to his pockets. I conscionable thought if I was going to hold for immoderate it was that was coming out, it would beryllium excessively late. When I saw his near manus inactive successful his pouch I took the chance.

“I conscionable grabbed his limb and kicked him successful the shins. We would aboriginal find retired a weapon and a firearm were involved, but immoderate was successful the near pocket, for that infinitesimal it was not coming out.”

The incidental was portion of respective burglaries crossed Telford that week, constabulary claimed.

Jordan Hickman, 29, Jake Jones, 21, and an 18-year-old who could not beryllium named for ineligible reasons were jailed for a combined full of 18 years for their involvement.

Chief Superintendent Edd Williams said: “It was my pleasance to grant Mairi with her bravery award. Her speedy reasoning meant that nary 1 was harmed during this attempted robbery and nary wealth oregon goods were stolen.”

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