A woman with odd-sized feet got a slap on the wrist from police after leaving a shop with different sized shoes.

Police officers were called to New Look in Braintree town centre, where they “detained a suspect as part of an investigation into theft of shoes”.

It transpires that a woman had asked to try on two different sizes of shoe.

Staff tried to explain to her that she could not buy a shoe in one size and another in a different size.

They told her that shoes were sold as pairs of the same size.

Nonetheless, the defiant shopper seized her chance when staff disappeared to fetch more shoes.

She left cash on the counter and fled the shop with a pair of mismatched sized shoes shortly after 5.15pm on Friday, February 20.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “A woman was spoken to and the matter was dealt with by way of a community resolution.”