Horror moment kidnapper snatches baby girl in pram outside seaside ice cream shop

This is the horror moment a woman brazenly tried to abduct a baby in a pram from outside an ice cream shop.

Nicolette Goldrick, 51, caused "unimaginable terror" when she attempted to snatch a seven-month-old baby, who was outside a shop as her mum was inside the store. The 51-year-old took off the pram brake and started pushing it down the street, on May 10. The baby girl's terrified mother, who was paying for a delivery at the shop, shouted and chased after Goldrick before managing to stop her down the street.

A shocking video caught the moment the 51-year-old, wearing a mask on her face, calmly pushed the pram away as she looked behind into the shop several times, on Central Drive, in Blackpool.

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Goldrick then stopped a few moments later and turned the pram around, as the mum and another woman ran out of the shop and raced to the baby. The mum then appeared to move Goldrick's hands away from the pram and said something to the kidnapper.

The 51-year-old silently walked away from the site but was arrested when she returned to the area near the shop later the same afternoon, a court heard. While being arrested, she verbally abused officers as they led her to the police van and once inside the van, she spat at one of them, Lancashire Constabulary said.

Goldrick pleaded guilty to child abduction and assaulting an emergency worker at Preston Crown Court. She was sentenced on Tuesday to a total of 12 months in prison and made subject to a five-year restraining order.

At the sentence hearing, the parents called the indecent the "worst day of their lives" and "something they would never get over", in a victim personal statement read out on behalf of the parents.

Tom Snape, Senior Crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service North West, said: "Nicolette Goldrick's brazen actions caused unimaginable terror as she attempted to abduct a baby. This incident encapsulates every parent’s worst nightmare, forcing her mother to chase after her.

"Goldrick's abuse to the officers upon her arrest suggests she has little remorse for her actions. I hope the baby’s parents can begin to move forward knowing Goldrick has faced the consequences of her actions."

The police earlier said the baby was unharmed during the horror ordeal, which happened near the town's Coral Island amusements.