A MIDWIFE was cruelly left stranded at Grimsby's hospital after a busy night shift when her bike was stolen outside the maternity unit.
Rebecca Howard, 23, who last year raised money for pregnant women in Uganda with a sponsored bike ride was "shocked" and "disappointed" to learn that her bike had been taken just metres from where she works at the Diana, Princess Of Wales Hospital.
The mountain bike, a white and red Claud Butler model, was taken during the night while Rebecca was inside the hospital helping expectant mums through their pregnancies.
Rebecca, a resident of Lady Frances Crescent in Cleethorpes, said: "It's disappointing when we're doing the job we're doing.
"We help a lot of people and I'm shocked that someone would want to steal a bike from outside a hospital that helps so many in the area.
"I locked my bike there thinking it would be safe, there's a bike shed in the main building, but it's more convenient for me to leave it around here.
"I don't want to be roaming the hospital grounds at night to get home.
"It's annoying because you try to be more health and environmentally conscious but after having it stolen I just think: 'What's the point'?
"The other midwives and nurses here have been great.
"I was given a lift home from a colleague and one of them has even offered me her old bike, so it's nice to know there still some good people in the world willing to help you out when you need it the most."
A spokesperson for Humberside Police said the bike was secured by a lock to a cycle loop outside of the hospital, and was taken between 7pm on Monday, August 11 and 7am the following morning.
"It appears that the cycle lock may have been cut in order to remove the cycle from the loop," the spokesperson said.
Police looking into the theft have asked anyone with information to call the non-emergency 101 number quoting crime reference number AA/2061896.
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