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A crowd of individuals chanted ‘w*nker’ at an alleged would-be telephone thief after he was stopped on the street in central London.
The balaclava clad man was grabbed by members of the general public after allegedly tried to steal a telephone on Wardour Avenue, Soho, central London on Saturday.
He was held by safety, as pedestrians flocked round him, saying that they had discovered stolen telephones and wallets in his pocket.
However the jeering crowd demanded his headgear be eliminated, once they started chanting ‘w*nker’ on the man.
He was finally let go, and was then seen strolling away sheepishly as folks continued to shout and giggle at him.
In February, the Metropolitan Police revealed that they had arrested 230 suspected telephone snatchers within the house of only a week, and recovered 1,000 mobiles throughout their raids.
In footage launched by the drive, one plain clothed police officer is seen recognizing a telephone snatcher, in a darkish blue backwards baseball cap and black jacket in Oxford Circus.
The thief had focused an aged particular person within the vacationer sizzling spot, however one officer noticed the assault and tackled him to the bottom in entrance of shocked pedestrians.
Officers additionally carried out raids in second-hand telephone retailers and used helicopters to search out the thieves.
Snatch thefts have elevated by 150% in London over the past 12 months, with one telephone stolen within the capital each six minutes.
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Some 78,000 folks had telephones or luggage stolen from them on British streets within the 12 months to March 2024.
That could be a rise of greater than 150% on the 31,000 ‘snatch thefts’ within the 12 months earlier than, in accordance with knowledge from the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Figures additionally present that 4 in 5 police investigations had been closed earlier than a suspect was even discovered and simply 0.8% of ‘theft from the particular person’ complaints resulted in a cost.
The federal government has pledged to crackdown on the scourge, with the Dwelling Workplace saying it’s going to work extra intently with tech corporations and police chiefs.
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