I Feel I Have Given So Much And Now Had Everything Taken Away

Nurse burgled while on the virus frontline

- Paul Jeeves

A NURSE on the Covid frontline is “totally broken” after thieves ransacked her home while she was saving lives.

Joanne Birkinshaw, who works around the clock at an A&E and then spends her spare time volunteering at a vaccination hub, said the stolen items included jewellery from her mum, who died six years ago.

She has now penned a letter to the burglars, telling them: “I feel like I have given so much and I have now had everything taken away.”

Devastation

Joanne, 54, who last week ran seven miles to get to and from work at Barnsley Hospital, South Yorks, because snow stopped her from driving, said some of the items stolen at the weekend meant more to her than a lottery win.

She said: “I was doing a 12½-hour shift and then I came home and when I walked in I saw just devastation.

“If you gave me a million pounds it could not replace any of what has gone. I lost my mum and I have now lost some of my mum’s jewellery and things that mean a huge amount to me that are worth nothing to anybody else.”

In her letter posted on the internet she writes: “I don’t think I or anyone else deserves the devastation and upset you have inflicted on me. I have truly worked my a*** off this year in the job that I love. My colleagues and I at the hospital have had the worst year ever.