Bike-riding ‘phone thieves’ caught after helicopter chase through London streets

Two men who snatched phones from pedestrians portion riding e-bikes were caught successful little than 2 hours, constabulary say.

CCTV footage shows the infinitesimal a bandana-clad fig swerves onto a pavement successful cardinal London and appears to swipe a gadget from the hands of a antheral arsenic helium passes him.

Other clips filmed by a constabulary chopper and an officer’s bodycam shows the alleged thieves recklessly weaving betwixt postulation successful an effort to escape.

Two men who look to beryllium successful their aboriginal 20s are past seen being apprehended by equipped officers astatine an address.

The Metropolitan Police said the brace stole respective phones during a one-hour spree crossed Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea.

Naming them lone arsenic Parkinson and Wilson, the unit said they ‘face a combined condemnation of implicit 5 years’ successful prison.

Earlier this week, the Met released footage of a abstracted incidental successful which an e-bike rider snatched a woman’s telephone retired of her manus astatine a autobus stop.

The unit said helium showed ‘no regard’ for pedestrians arsenic helium fled, earlier being traced and detained astatine a younker centre successful Islaington.

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