Shopper who left £70 in cashpoint tries to trace kind stranger who waited for an HOUR to give it her back

Nanette Lovell, 54, withdrew her weekly food budget from the ATM outside Tesco and then dashed inside without taking her money

Nanette Lovell at the cash machine where she was helped by a kind stranger. (SWNS)

A shopper who accidentally left £70 in a cash machine is trying to trace the kind stranger who waited in the cold for an hour to give it her back.

Nanette Lovell, 54, withdrew her weekly food budget from the ATM outside Tesco and then dashed inside without taking her money.

She only realised her mistake over an hour later when she went to pay for her shopping at the till.

She went back outside and was amazed to find the mystery man - who had been behind her in the cashpoint queue - still standing there with her money.

Nanette, a reflexologist from Helston, Cornwall, hurried back inside to pay her bill, but by the time she left the Good Samaritan had gone.

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She is now appealing for him to come forward so she can thank him properly and offer him a reward.

She said: 'I went and did my shopping and I really dawdled around the supermarket.

'I went to pay and realised there was no cash in my pocket and what must have happened.

‘Naturally I went to customer services in the hope that someone had handed it in - but there was nothing.


'I came outside, trying not to cry, when this man came up to me and said, 'have you lost something?'. He said to me, 'I've been waiting out here hoping you'd come out.

'I did try and follow you but I couldn't find you in the store''.

Nanette said she was so shocked she failed to take the man's name, but says he was in his fifties, with short brown hair and brown eyes.

She added: 'I think the fact he waited such a long time was really impressive. He needs recognition for being such a kind man.

'I'd really like the chance to thank him properly. I couldn't have afforded to lose that money.'