British acting legend Susan Hampshire has revealed that she was targeted on the London Underground in a terrifying theft.
The 87-year-old actress is best-known for roles in TV dramas and films including Vanity Fair, The First Churchills, The Forsyte Saga, Wonderful Life and Night Must Fall.
She recently shared that while travelling on public transport in the English capital, a thief stole a couple of essential items from her bag.
‘I was mugged on the Underground the other day,’ she said while attending a Talking Pictures event in the city.
She continued, according to the Mail: ‘I wish I’d put my money in my bra because I lost my phone and my purse.’
In a new report, Transport for London has revealed which routes on the Underground are the most likely to be impacted by crime.
From January until August last year, there were 31,648 recorded offences on London transport, with more than 16,000 taking place on the Tube or at a London Underground station.
According to TFL, the Central Line saw the most offences in that time period, with 1,419 incidents, compared to 1,320 incidents on the Northern Line.
There were also 1,128 recorded incidents on the Piccadilly Line, 1,097 on the Victoria Line and 1,036 on the Jubilee Line.
The line that was least likely to see any crime was the Waterloo & City Line, with only three incidents recorded on that route in that seven-month block.
Last year, Susan was invited as a guest on Good Morning Britain to take part in a discussion about assisted dying.
The actress opened up about how she looked after her husband Eddie Kulukundis for 14 years before his death in 2021, and how her two sisters had suffered in pain before their deaths.
‘The nurses, the district nurses, were wonderful. Everybody was wonderful. I’m not complaining about anything. All I’m saying is somebody’s life when they say to you so often “Please help me to go. Just let me skip this bit. I can’t stand it any longer,” and then the voice gets tinier and tinier. You know, just asking for help, and you can do nothing,’ she said, becoming choked up as she recalled her experiences with her loved ones.
‘You can do nothing. It’s against the law. Therefore I do feel, if you can get people to the moon, surely lawyers and doctors can work out a system which is safe for people who… it’s about choice.’
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