‘I felt violated’: Nurse, 24, returns from gruelling shift to find thugs had STRIPPED her car of nearly all of its parts including the engine and headlights

  • Demi Murphy, 24, found her parked Toyota Aygo stripped by thugs last night
  • Staff nurse at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital called incident ‘horrible’
  • Key worker added: ‘I feel completely violated. This is how I’m repaid’ 

An A&E nurse has told how she felt ‘violated’ when she found her parked car stripped of its parts after completing a gruelling 12-hour shift yesterday. 

Demi Murphy, 24, found the driver’s window of her Toyota Aygo smashed in and the front of the vehicle nearly totally stripped by thugs.

The mortified staff nurse, who works at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital will now have to pay an excess of £500 to get the car fixed. 

Ms Murphy called the incident ‘horrible and so disheartening’ and said: ‘I feel completely violated. I’ve worked really hard, as has everyone else in the current pandemic, as a key worker and this is how I’m repaid. 

An A&E nurse told how she felt ‘violated’ when she found her parked Toyota Aygo stripped of its parts after completing a gruelling 12-hour shift yesterday

Demi Murphy, 24, found the driver’s window of her Toyota Aygo smashed in and the front of the vehicle nearly totally stripped by thugs 

‘I’ve now got no means of transport and no way of getting into work to help look after patients and this how we are repaid. It’s just disgusting. I’m really devastated.’

Ms Murphy, who graduated at Birmingham City University four months ago, said could not get into the hospital car park as the barriers were down. 

She parked her Toyota Aygo on a residential road where she had previously parked as a student without any issue.

‘It should not happen to anybody and it’s disgraceful regardless if you’re a key worker or not – but to walk out of a busy A&E shift to this is not fair,’ she said.

‘You go to work and pay your way in life and that’s how you’re repaid.’

Ms Murphy said residents from the street and others on social media told her of other incidents on the same road with number plates thefts and muggings of keys.

Her car was previously stolen outside a restaurant in Coventry in February. But it was returned to her without any damage caused.

A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: ‘Officers were flagged down yesterday (Thursday) evening to reports of parts being stolen from a Toyota Aygo car parked in Yardley Green Road, Bordesley Green, sometime between 8am and 8.15pm.’ 

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