Singing legend Katherine tells how she saved elderly woman from muggers

SHE has the voice and looks of an angel, but Katherine Jenkins today reveals the steely side that drove her to stop teenage muggers attacking an elderly woman.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, the mezzo-soprano, right, has described how she was heading to rehearsals for a charity carol concert when she saw the victim being targeted by two 15-year-old girls.

Within seconds, the 39-year-old was bolting across two lanes of traffic to come to the woman’s rescue. She says: ‘I was standing there on the other side of the road, thinking “Why is no one helping?” and then I just ran over, shouting “That lady is being attacked, stop it, stop it!” and threw myself in.

‘I didn’t think twice. If it was my mum being mugged, it would kill me to think no one did anything. I was shouting at the girls and because I’d intervened, they gave the bag back to her. The lady then just disappeared and the girls started on me.’

The mother-of-two’s own iPhone was snatched in the incident last December. But police, who were called to the scene in King’s Road in Chelsea, West London, eventually caught one of the muggers, who handed over the star’s mobile and later apologised for her behaviour in court.

Miss Jenkins says: ‘I was shaken up and kept thinking about all the photos of my babies on that phone.

‘I carried on to the church and got on stage and somehow managed to sing.’ She adds: ‘I never want to be that woman who looks the other way.’ It is not the first time the Welsh singer has faced danger. On one of many trips to Afghanistan to perform for British troops, her helicopter was attacked by a Taliban missile, causing the pilot to take evasive action.