<b>By Rob Banks
Crime Editor

An Ipswich grandmother today claimed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn took her dead husband's bike while on an election campaign visit to the town earlier this year.</b>

Mrs Mary Dell, 83, a former nurse and now a resident in an old folks home in Bury St Edmunds, told The Suffolk Gazette: "My Bill passed away in the January so I put his bike away in our shed for safekeeping. It was only after Mr Corbyn's visit in March that I noticed it had gone.

"The padlock had been cut off the shed door and the bike was missing along with our lawn mower and some of Bill's tools. I immediately put two and two together and realised that Mr Corbyn must have done it.

"I even saw him riding a bike down his street the other day on television. It looked like Bill's bike because it had two wheels and some pedals, but it seems he has painted it a different colour. Bill's was red and Mr Corbyn has painted it blue, which is a bit ironic, don't you think?

"I've never voted Labour and I never will to be honest, especially after this."

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jeremy-corbyn-bike.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-2233"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jeremy-corbyn-bike.jpg" alt="Jeremy Corbyn on a bicycle" width="630" height="419" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2233" /></a></center><center><i>Jeremy Corbyn: I like to ride my bicycle (Photo, Twitter/@TrickyBee)</center></i><br><br>

Mr Corbyn, who received <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/kim-jong-un-backs-jeremy-corbyn/" target="_blank">surprise Labour leadership backing from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un</a>, who has a <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/business/kim-jong-un-caravan/" target="_blank">holiday caravan in Suffolk</a>, last night strongly denied the allegation that he took a bike from a shed in Ipswich.

Speaking to reporters outside his home in North London, he said: "It's absurd to suggest I had anything to do with the disappearance of this lady's bicycle. I freely admit I may have climbed over her back fence to answer a call of nature, but I certainly didn't lop off the padlock on the shed with bolt-croppers, nor did I take the bike, a hammer and bolster, a pair of mole grips and an olive-green Suffolk Punch lawnmower with detachable grass collector."

This latest allegation comes just two weeks after former Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, was quizzed following a break-in at a Jaguar car showroom in Lowestoft.

Last night a Suffolk police insider said: "Of course Mr Corbyn did not take this woman's bike. She must be mistaken."

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