Man steals dying woman's cellphone
He was captured on CCTV picking up the phone and slipping away
London: A man stole a mobile phone from a young woman as she lay dying after jumping from a multi-storey car park.
Ben Heney, 23, had gone over to the 22-year-old philosophy student with another passer-by.
But while the other person tried to save fatally-injured Rachel Jardine, Heney knelt down and put something over her phone, which was on the ground beside her.
He was captured on CCTV picking up the phone and slipping away.
Yesterday he was jailed for 12 weeks after admitting theft. He told police he sold the phone for £20 (Dh119).
Jardine died from her injuries after plunging 80 feet from the car park in Manchester city centre in the early hours of Wednesday.
Emotional last call
It is thought she was using the phone to make an emotional last call to her mother.
Manchester Magistrates' Court heard that police were called at 12.45am following reports of a woman falling from the car park. When they arrived they found that she was seriously injured.
Heney, of Hulme, Manchester, had been spotted stealing the phone by CCTV operators. A description of him was circulated and he was arrested and jailed within 24 hours.
Officers are now keen to find the phone so Jardine's family can inform her friends of her death.
