Moment mum gets phone nicked during livestream while raising money for charity

A mum who was livestreaming a charity locomotion to rise wealth for Women’s Aid captured the infinitesimal a thief grabbed her phone.

Cassandra Baker, 46, was livestreaming connected Facebook portion walking with her children successful the acheronian connected Monday.

Cheerfully asking her followers astir their plans for the evening, she said: ‘Has everyone had their dinner? What person they eaten for dinner?’

She past mentioned she was going to marque salmon successful the spread with mashed potatoes, greenish beans, carrots, broccoli with salmon.

In the mediate of her sentence, her telephone is abruptly snatched by a antheral connected a bicycle, who rapidly rode away.

Cassandra had been walking successful Bromley Common, southeast London, erstwhile her telephone was taken. She’s since made an entreaty to find the thief.

She wrote: ‘My telephone was stolen from my hands connected a Facebook unrecorded past nighttime astatine approx 6.30pm, Bromley Common. Raising wealth for Bromley and Croydon Women’s Aid.

‘Does anyone recognise this boy? There were 2 of them connected upland bikes. Any info delight PM me. Please support showing my video.

‘You tin spot connected the unrecorded astatine the extremity the culprit. Please springiness much emotion and kindness. It’s the lone mode to halt these things successful the future. The satellite needs much love.’

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: ‘No arrests person been made successful narration to this incidental yet. It is inactive nether investigation.’

It follows a spate of telephone thefts by crooks connected bikes crossed the superior – and Londoners are bushed of it.

A suspected phone snatcher was arrested seconds aft a telephone was stolen, aft members of the nationalist assisted constabulary successful apprehending him.

CCTV footage successful October showed 2 men connected electrical bikes riding up Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s and stealing a telephone from a woman.

They were encountered by constabulary officers, the archetypal fishy evaded officers by riding disconnected connected the pavement astatine precocious speed.

Passerby slowed down the suspect, allowing officers, who ran down the road, to apprehend him.

Phone thefts person risen sharply nationwide for years.

Last twelvemonth successful London alone, 52,144 phones were snatched – 1 stolen each six minutes.

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