Louise Williams got a huge surprise when she checked her video doorbell
The video doorbell footage of a stranger’s kind act which captured the hearts of ECHO readers has been shared. Wirral mum Louise Williams got a huge surprise when she raced home from Tesco on Sunday, March 1 after losing her purse while shopping.
She raced home to cancel all her cards but found a kind stranger had incredibly posted the purse through her letterbox.
Louise, 48, from Claughton Village checked her video doorbell footage to see if she could find the good Samaritan who helped her. To her surprise, the manager of Liverpool’s Beatles Story Museum Paul Parry popped up on her screen. She shared his image on Facebook in hope of tracking him down and within minutes the power of the internet had located Paul, and Louise was able to thank him personally.
Louise shared her warming story with the ECHO, touching the hearts of thousands of readers. She has now shared video footage of the moment kind Smartian Paul posted the purse through her letterbox. In the footage you can see Paul, holding the small burgundy purse, ring the doorbell.
The mum previously said she’d been to Asda in Birkenhead to buy ingredients for a Sunday lunch, but when they had no Brussel sprouts she called into Tesco Express in Claughton Village on her way home.
She said: “My purse must have fallen out of my bag on the road outside Tesco and I hadn’t realised. I got to the tills to pay in Tesco and couldn’t find it. I checked everywhere and it was nowhere to be seen so we went back to Asda to see if I’d left it there.
“The security was fab and checked the cameras, you could clearly see me put it back in my bag. They checked the cameras in the car park and it clearly didn’t fall out.”
Louise rushed home to cancel all her cards. When she arrived home and unlocked her front door, there was her missing purse.
She said: “From where Paul described he’d found it it sounds like it was on the road outside Tesco and he must have parked in the space after me.
“It really restores your faith in people, when they do things like this. He [Paul] is so lovely, it was really nice of him to do.”
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