Love Island star targeted in train robbery as £8,500 designer bag stolen with 'everything important' inside

Singer Wes Nelson, who first found fame on Love Island in 2018, said on Instagram that his bag was stolen while on a train journey through Milton Keynes.

He said it took only a "split second" for the crime to happen, adding that he was glad he had removed his laptop from his bag.

The 26-year-old said said he was "lucky" as it has all of his unreleased music on there.

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"My LV [Louis Vuitton] bag was just stolen on the train just as we stopped at Milton Keynes. Had everything important in it," Nelson wrote on Instagram.

"I'm lucky I took my MacBook out before the journey. All my music would have been GONE.

"Anyway just a heads up, it took a split second to look away and that s**t was gone. Rats everywhere."

He went on to share an earlier picture which shows his bag in the background, saying: "Just clocked in this pic I sent earlier.

"The bag has been pulled waaaay back to the seat behind me, the guy must have been slowly sliding it backwards whenever I looked down. Then quickly dipped at the first stop.

"You know what's mad, you always think there's no way this s**t gonna happen to me without noticing first. But here we are. S**t. Also this is the first time I’ve ever used the overhead storage. Never again."

In a later post, the singer said there would be a reward for anyone who could retrieve the bag and its contents.

Sharing an image of the luggage bag, he said: "I've got a reward for anyone who can get it back with contents."

Following his appearance on Love Island, Nelson competed on Dancing on Ice and The X Factor: Celebrity.

He has since been focused on music after securing a record deal with EMI Records.