A man haunted after carrying out a mugging to impress a friend has apologised to his victim 35 years later, after spotting him on Facebook.
Michael Goodman, 53, was a teenager in the late 1970s when he targeted Claude Soffel, 52, on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
He took Mr Soffel's bus pass during the mugging, but was quickly arrested and struggled to come to terms with his actions for the next three decades.
But while reading a post on the closing of H&H Bagels on New York's Upper East Side he recognised Mr Soffel's name in the comments and decided it was time to apologise.
He wrote: "For some reason there were undercover Police right there and I was arrested on the spot. My father had to leave work and come and get me and was not to (sic) happy with me to say the least!
"I have never forgotten the incident or your name (it has sort of haunted me a bit throughout my life) and then her I am on fb. reading about my favourite bagel store in the world closing down... my brain is blown!
"Finally I can say - I'M VERY SORRY that you had to go through that c*** that day long ago, I wish it had never happened but it did.
"Like I said I was trying to look tough to impress some guy who didn't believe I was in a gang, pretty f***** stupid huh?"
After a 10-day wait, Mr Soffel replied to Mr Goodman - who now lives in Hawaii - and accepted his heartfelt apology.
He wrote: "Michael A. Goodman, clearly you're a 'bigger man' today. Wow. Memory is a funny thing, I recognise your name now, as well.
"So, apology accepted."
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