A heavily pregnant former Miss England winner has told how she "fell flat" on her stomach after being targeted by a phone thief in London.
Laura Coleman was eight months pregnant when she was out walking and the thug in an electric bike tried to snatch her phone.
The influencer said in a video posted to her Instagram, where she has more than 685,000 followers, how the thief came from behind her, mounted the pavement and tried to grab the phone from her hand.
She instinctively held on tight to the phone, was dragged off the curb and "fell flat on [her] 34-weeks-pregnant stomach".
She said the feeling of the impact of the fall "haunted" her, saying: "I can still feel the bounce of like a space hopper ball, it was like woom, and I could feel all the liquid inside...It's like PTSD".
She said the phone bounced on the floor and the thief didn't grab it.
"I shouted at him whilst I was lying down in the middle of the road, 'I'm eight months pregnant, you idiot'", she said.
She rushed to hospital afterwards to check her baby was still ok, the MailOnline reported.
When she was finally checked, she could thankfully still hear a heartbeat but kept her monitored for two hours, the newspaper said.
Ms Coleman made the police aware of the incident and the Met have been contacted for comment.
Ms Coleman, who studied for a degree in business law and marketing at De Montfort University in Leicester, won Miss England in 2008, just a day after her graduation.
She went on to represent England in Miss World.
Her terrifying ordeal comes as the phone theft epidemic continues to plague London.
However the Met Police are cracking down on thefts.
Mobile phone theft and robbery offences in London fell from 81,365 in 2024 to 71,391 last year – a drop of 12.3 per cent.
