Reading star Andy Carroll has hit out on social media after thieves reportedly snatched his wife's phone out of his daughter's hands.

The 34-year-old footballer, after starting the Royals' 1-0 defeat to Millwall on Saturday, was at Westfield Stratford on Sunday when the theft allegedly took place.

On his Instagram account, the former England international said: "Some absolute scumbag woman just ripped @BilliMucklow phone out of our baby's hand in Westfield Stratford.

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"Marvel was sitting in her pushchair and started screaming when the woman attacked and ran off!!!"

His wife, TV personality Billi Mucklow, added on her Instagram: "Marvel was sitting in her pram watching my phone, some dirty scumbag grabbed my phone she screamed crying 'lady took my phone'.

"I looked up to see someone running off she was screaming they obviously grabbed it from her and she wouldn't let go and they must have snatched it out her hands.

"How dare someone touch my baby. I've never felt so sick to my stomach that someone had gone near her, couldn't give a f*** about my phone."

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The former Liverpool record transfer revealed that he has tracked the stolen phone.

A spokesperson from the Met Police told the Reading Chronicle: "We have received a report of a theft that is alleged to have occurred at Westfield Stratford City on the afternoon of Sunday, March 12. There have been no arrests and enquiries are ongoing."