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Islington Tribune - by MARK BLUNDEN
Published: 3 August 2007

Kindness for victim of robbery

IT was an act of extreme kindness by any standards, but on Caledonian Road it bordered on holy.
Robberies are not uncommon on the Cally, a busy arterial road that divides the extreme affluence of Barnsbury from the sprawling Bemerton Estate.
An unlucky Lancastrian tourist was dragging a heavy suitcase behind him late on Tuesday night when two men started following him
One pinned the 30-year-old against the wall and showed him a knife in his inside jacket pocket.
After taking the phone they took out his SIM card and threw it on the floor.
What happened next is, certainly by London standards, to be considered an act of extreme kindness.
Two kind-hearted passers-by noticed the tourist looking bewildered and clearly on his uppers.
They stopped to check he was OK and decided the robbery victim needed a stiff drink.
Not only did they buy him a bracing beverage from a nearby off licence but the couple also lent him an Oyster card with a few pounds’ credit to help him to the station.

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