This is the moment a serial dine-and-dasher is confronted by pub customers and staff after she and her partner tried to dodge paying the £62 bill for their Sunday roast.
But no action was taken after the owner decided it wasn't worth pursuing them through court for the money. Crooked Kerry Ann Stevens and her partner Daniel Alani tried to skip paying a £62 bill in a pub near their home but were recognised by locals 'The woman said her father would pay – but that he was in hospital with his grandson. When we asked why they didn't have any money, they didn't give any answer at all – they just sat there.'
A string of local restaurant owners and taxi drivers have since come forward to claim the couple have also dodged payments but get away with it because the sums are too small to warrant legal action 'The man asked to get out of the car earlier than the woman and when she asked to get out further down the road, she couldn't offer any payment,' he said.
'I reported them to the police and they said 'Are you willing to go to court?' I thought no, not for the sake of £20. They said they'd dismiss the case and now I realise the pair have been doing it to everyone. We know of at least ten drivers.' In January 2021, she tried to get takeaway food without paying the £43.47 bill. The following month she said she would 'return to a Harvester restaurant to pay her bill of £60.91 but she did not return'.
Stevens moved into the newbuild house when it was constructed around nine years ago. When the Mail visited it this week, there was an exposed electricity box on the exterior and overgrown grass and shrubs in the garden.