<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 earlier this year.

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 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 pushing it down his street the other day on television. I've never voted Labour and I never will to be honest, especially after this."

Mr Corbyn, who received the surprise election backing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who has a holiday caravn in Suffolk, last night strongly denied the allegation that he took a bike from a shed.

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. Er, I've got to go."

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.

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