A homeless man has pleaded guilty to stealing a purse and mobile phone from people injured in the Manchester Arena attack.

Chris Parker, 33, took the purse of Pauline Healey as her granddaughter Sorrell Leczkowski, 14, lay dying yards away.

He was also accused of taking a mobile phone belonging to a teenage girl who cannot be named because of her age.

Rough sleeper Parker received global acclaim afterwards as he described witnessing the effects of the blast and tending to the injured.

Parker, now living in Halifax, West Yorkshire, initially denied two counts of theft and two counts of attempted theft.

It was alleged Parker took Mrs Healey's purse, containing bank cards, from a handbag as she lay on the ground.

Mrs Healey, Sorrell and Sorrell's mother, Samantha Leczkowski, did not attend the concert but were there to meet somebody who had.

The grandmother had 15 hours of surgery to remove shrapnel from her body and also suffered multiple compound fractures to her arms and legs, while Sorrell's mother was also seriously injured.

His trial at Manchester Crown Court had been scheduled to last three days.

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