This is a touching story.
A 31-year-old man was caught shoplifting at a Tesco store in Bukit Mertajam in Malaysia.
When caught, he readily admitted that he stole the food to feed his young family.
‘I had to quit my job as a contract worker after my wife fell into a coma during a birth complication last week,’ said the man, who wished to remain anonymous.
‘She is still in the Bukit Mertajam hospital.’
The man was returning from visiting his wife in the hospital when he passed the shop with his two-year-old son. He explains that they had been walking for over an hour as they didn’t have money for a bus ticket.
‘I went straight to the food section and grabbed some pears, apples and a few bottles of drinks,’ he said.
The general manager of the store Radzun Ma’asan caught the man but decided not to press charges when he heard the man’s story.
‘The man’s situation really touched our hearts,’ he said.
‘We visited his relative’s house. It was so empty and poor.
‘In my 23 years of experience in the retail line, I had never come across thieves who admitted to their crime so easily. He also told us that he was unable to work as he has to look after his three children, aged two to seven.
The man’s wife has now awoken from her coma but sadly lost her baby due to complications during the birth.
