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A brazen thief was caught on camera swiping a 6ft Christmas tree from a mum's doorstep in a real-life Grinch moment.

Ring doorbell footage shows a hooded figure approaching Zoe Murray's home in Loughborough, Leicestershire, before yanking the tree from its stand and legging it down the street on 26 November.

Mum-of-10 Zoe, 52, was indoors when the tree vanished at 8.26pm and "didn't hear a thing".]

She only realised it had gone at 10pm when she popped out to collect her daughter from work.

Upon returning home, Zoe checked her Ring doorbell's live feed and was left "stunned" by what she saw.

She managed to retrieve the tree ornaments and baubles that same evening after discovering them strewn along the road.

The tree was subsequently found abandoned in a local park an

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