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A hero nan who pulled a knife-wielding thug away from a shopworker revealed her only thought was to protect the young employee being threatened.

Brave Katrina Mooney stumbled across the armed robbery attempt as she entered a Wallasey newsagents.

CCTV footage recorded her berating the offender and pulling him away from the shop counter – eventually forcing him out of the shop.

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Despite being confronted with a weapon Mrs Mooney said she felt no fear as she made him abandon his plan to rob News Plus in Trafalgar Road.

Speaking to the ECHO, Mrs Mooney, who works in a shop herself, instead revealed her first reaction was to protect the girl being threatened.

The 39-year-old mum-of-two who also has a grandchild, said: “I was going in the shop to get something and that’s when I saw her and heard something was going on.

“He was just staring at me, he didn’t say anything until he got over the road and then he said he would be back for me.”

Asked if she had been scared at any point during the incident, she said: “That thought never even entered my head, I was just trying to protect the girl. I had already seen the knife but he was waving it around a lot, but then as he went to walk out the door he waved the knife and I just said: ‘Get out’.

“I said: ‘What do you think you are doing threatening young girls with a knife – get out’.

“When I grabbed him the first time, he pulled away from me and I just pulled him out. I just wanted him outside the shop.”

Mrs Mooney said local people have been stopping her on the street, calling her a “hero”.

But she insisted her bravery was just a natural reaction to the situation. She said: “It was just the thought of seeing the knife in the girl’s face, it was horrible. People are asking me if I’m alright. I’m fine, don’t worry about me.”