This is the moment a brazen thief was spotted and caught by a news camera crew - as they interviewed the shopkeeper about shoplifting.
ITV News had been speaking to Ben Selvaratnam, owner of a convenience store in Croydon, south London, when a man in a hooded coat walks past them carrying two bottles of alcohol he hadn't paid for, heading straight for the exit.
As the camera crew alerts Mr Selvaratnam to the shoplifter while he's speaking, he pauses to stop the man, who insisted 'I was going to pay', before handing over the two bottles and leaving empty-handed. (Credit: ITV News)
ITV News had been speaking to Ben Selvaratnam, owner of a convenience store in Croydon, south London, when a man in a hooded coat walks past them carrying two bottles of alcohol he hadn't paid for, heading straight for the exit.
As the camera crew alerts Mr Selvaratnam to the shoplifter while he's speaking, he pauses to stop the man, who insisted 'I was going to pay', before handing over the two bottles and leaving empty-handed. (Credit: ITV News)
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00:00 Croydon, and this shameless shoplifter, casually goes down the store's aisle and sticks alcohol
00:07 straight into his pocket. But as it turns out, we were filming while he was stealing.
00:15 Young businessmen or women will want to go into business.
00:24 Hello, excuse me. Did you take anything?
00:31 No, I'm good.
00:33 Thank you.
00:35 Thank you.
00:37 [BLANK_AUDIO]