WHEN it comes to crime, journalists and their readers can sometimes think they’ve seen it all.

But occasionally, criminals still manage to surprise us.

It seems there are people who can see someone lying on the ground in pain after a road accident – and view it as the perfect opportunity to help themselves to a nice mobile phone.

Most people will find it difficult to imagine the callousness involved in such a response.

It may be that in Bournemouth this week, science has discovered a new breed of human low-life.Bournemouth Echo: Thieves steal woman's mobile phone as she lay in road after accident