Bike Gang's Daylight Robbery On Gem Store
5:44pm UK, Tuesday March 09, 2010
A motorcycle gang has done a smash and grab on a London jeweller, making off with fistfuls of gems and watches in the middle of the day.
Five bikers mounted the pavement and screeched to a halt outside Mappin & Webb's Piccadilly store in the West End.
They boldly spent five minutes beating through the reinforced glass windows with a sledgehammer and helping themselves to the goods, worth at least £50,000.
And when astonished passers-by stopped to look, the gang members drove their bikes at them to ward them off.
When the glass broke, it set off the store's alarm system and poured anti-theft smoke out of the shop.
Amazingly, one man walked right past the robbers as if nothing was happening just as one of the group was leaning into the window and swiping jewels from the display.
The gang then sped off. They have not yet been traced by police.
Forensic officers and police examining the scene have cordoned off a large section of Old Bond Street, famed for its expensive jewellers.
The same jeweller's Regent Street store was raided at least three times in 2008. In one attack a Vauxhall Vectra was driven through the front doors and security gates.
In 2006 two teenagers were jailed after stealing goods worth about £26,000 from Mappin & Webb in Fenchurch Street.
The business holds two royal warrants and acts as silversmith to the Queen and Prince Charles.
The groups of thieves previously responsible have been dubbed "Fagin's Kitchen" gangs after police discovered some members were aged in their early teens.
Bike Gang's Daylight Robbery On Gem Store
5:44pm UK, Tuesday March 09, 2010
A motorcycle gang has done a smash and grab on a London jeweller, making off with fistfuls of gems and watches in the middle of the day.
Five bikers mounted the pavement and screeched to a halt outside Mappin & Webb's Piccadilly store in the West End.
They boldly spent five minutes beating through the reinforced glass windows with a sledgehammer and helping themselves to the goods, worth at least £50,000.
And when astonished passers-by stopped to look, the gang members drove their bikes at them to ward them off.
When the glass broke, it set off the store's alarm system and poured anti-theft smoke out of the shop.
Amazingly, one man walked right past the robbers as if nothing was happening just as one of the group was leaning into the window and swiping jewels from the display.
The gang then sped off. They have not yet been traced by police.
Forensic officers and police examining the scene have cordoned off a large section of Old Bond Street, famed for its expensive jewellers.
The same jeweller's Regent Street store was raided at least three times in 2008. In one attack a Vauxhall Vectra was driven through the front doors and security gates.
In 2006 two teenagers were jailed after stealing goods worth about £26,000 from Mappin & Webb in Fenchurch Street.
The business holds two royal warrants and acts as silversmith to the Queen and Prince Charles.
The groups of thieves previously responsible have been dubbed "Fagin's Kitchen" gangs after police discovered some members were aged in their early teens.
WOW!!! Who-da thought it. And of course you didn't have your camera!! CRAZY!
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