She said her John Wayne-style swagger on the CCTV footage was due to the pain of breaking in some heels for a new job. “I was wearing new heels at the time and I was trying to break them in ...

But that was not the case for Mairi Kerin, who is a fifth dan karate black belt - as a gun-toting ... had two bruises to show for it, but my new heels that I was breaking in for the new job ...

A black belt karate coach managed to send a would-be thief empty-handed from a shop while breaking in her new heels. Mairi Kerin, 42, had been buying chocolates when a man came in and began ...