A heartbroken mum has lost "precious pictures" of her newborn baby after her phone was stolen in Nottingham city centre. Stacey Amos said she is "slowly coming to terms" that some of the most important memories in her daughter's life had vanished.
The 28-year-old sales assistant, from Bulwell, said she was was waiting at a bus stop on Maid Marian Way when the incident happened on September 30. The mum was talking to her fiancé over the phone, when she got distracted by her daughter's cry.
Ms Amos put her phone in her pocket, only to realise that it had vanished a couple of minutes later. She said: "A man came very close to me but I did not realise what happened.
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"I was supposed to meet my husband who was going to pick me up. It was a matter of one or two minutes that I realised it had gone."
She has tracked her device, a Samsung S22 Ultra, to help locate it. "It is an offline tracking app, so we were tracking it and it was going down the M1 and then it ended up in Burton-upon-Trent," she added.
The mum called Staffordshire Police following her discovery. She added: "We followed them and arrived on [on a street in the area]. We saw a group who jumped into a car, and then we followed them to a high street."
The couple confronted the group on Station Street, before police arrived. Officers searched a man and the immediate area, however the phone was nowhere to be found, the couple said.
The mum said: "We think the phone was dumped in a bush somewhere. We just could not find it, and I am slowly coming to terms with it. I only had the phone for three weeks, I got it before giving birth to Gracie-Mae Brown on August 31. So I did not get a chance to set the cloud.
"I lost all the photos of her, apart from a few that I sent to my mum. My partner also had a couple. I have just lost all of it. It is heartbreaking because it is all those little memories and it is just very hard to get over it. I was crying for a while."
She added: "Then my daughter needed checkups for a genetic thing and I needed a phone in case the doctors tried to get hold of me. So there was panic and it was all just a nightmare."
The mum said she was left heartbroken. The mum added: "I will never get the precious moments back. The other things are not really that important. It is such a shame because I have been documenting her life after she was born, and I hoped that she will be able to look at them when she will grow up. But now I just want to let people know that they should be very aware of their surroundings after what happened to me."
A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: "On Friday (30 September) we received a report of a theft of a mobile phone. It was believed that it had been taken to an address in Burton-upon-Trent.
"Officers attended Station Street and stopped and searched a man, they also searched the immediate area, but could not locate the phone. As the phone was initially stolen in Nottingham city centre, the incident has been passed to Nottinghamshire Police."
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