Well trained in bill chasing
Dorset hotel manager Sandra Creed held up an express train in pursuit of a guest who had left without paying his bill.
Creed, 33, general manager of the Mansion House hotel in Poole Quay, said that she spotted the man passing the hotel as she drove to work at about 8.30am. He had left the 32-bedroom hotel a week before, after running up a bill of £667 during his four-night stay, plus a £75 phone bill.
With her assistant manager, Colette Probyn, she trailed him on foot from a safe distance through the town centre for almost a mile while asking passers-by to call the police.
When the man jumped over a 4ft-high fence on to the station platform, Creed followed while Probyn went to phone the police.
As the guest boarded a London-bound train 10 minutes later, Creed dashed to the front of the train and begged the driver to delay his departure because the man was on board.
The driver delayed for 15 minutes then said he could wait no longer. But, at that point, the police turned up and arrested a 23-year-old man from London. He is now being questioned.
