A youngster has been praised for handing in hundreds of pounds that spat out of a supermarket's cash machine.
Jack Greenhalgh, 11, was fiddling with buttons on the ATM inside Asda at Swinton on Wednesday afternoon as he waited for his friend to get some money out.
All of a sudden the machine starting churning out notes, amounting to £400 in total.
Quick-thinking Jack alerted a nearby cleaner and a security guard - who had been keeping an eye out after a customer said her money hadn't come out of the machine - came and took the cash.
Jack's mum, Donna, put out an appeal on Facebook to find the customer and was later told by Asda staff that the lady had been reunited with her missing money.
"I thought the machine was out of order and I just pressed a couple of buttons messing about," said Jack.
"Next thing it just started beeping and all of a sudden lots of money started coming out. I thought is this some sort of magic ATM or something.
"A cleaner was near the lift so I told her and then a security guard came down from the next floor."
Jack, a Year 7 pupil at Moorside High School, admits if he found a pound somewhere he'd probably keep it, but he was never going to keep such a large amount.
"I'm not that kind of person to do theft," he said. "I'm not stupid and I wouldn't just take money like that. It's just wrong. This person has got a lot of money out and it could be their life savings."
Jack, whose two pals urged him to hand the money in too, phoned his mum from the precinct to tell her what had happened.
Donna said: "He rang me and said he'd found a lot of money, I said 'what do you mean?' He told me what had happened and that he'd handed it in, I said 'that's brilliant'.
"If he'd have come home with it, it just wouldn't have been right. He wouldn't have slept anyway. That's the kind of kid he is, he wears his heart on his sleeve.
"It could have belonged to an old lady, or an old man and it could have been anything - a child's birthday or Christmas money.
"I'm proud of him for doing the right thing."
Jack was rewarded with a £10 gift voucher from Asda, which he's already spent on a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, some football cones, a drink, some sweets and a bar of a chocolate for his grandad Jack, who helped him during lockdown.
If he did have £400 spare, an Oculus Quest 2 gaming headset would be at the top of his shopping list.
He might just have to wait until Christmas for that one.
