Staff ‘piled in’ to tackle knifemen who targeted diners at south west London restaurant

Staff astatine an upmarket southwest London edifice ‘piled in’ to prevention diners from knife-wielding attackers, witnesses said today.

At slightest 3 men walked calmly into Tashas, successful Nine Elms, earlier targeting a antheral and pistillate enjoying a repast connected Monday evening.

As diners took screen unit took connected the trio and forced them retired of the edifice contempt the raiders brandishing a knife.

A unit subordinate told Metro: ‘Three guys came successful the restaurant, precise casual, precise normal. Then 1 pulled a weapon connected a mates who were conscionable having a quiescent dinner.

‘Quick arsenic a flash immoderate of the unit responded and piled successful to quell the situation. Some large guys got progressive and forced them out.

‘There was immoderate pushing and shoving past information from the improvement got progressive and the 3 ran off. Their faces weren’t covered oregon thing it was precise brazen.

‘It looked similar they had targeted the antheral and woman. The mode the unit reacted was heroic it was thing else, particularly erstwhile you see a weapon was involved.’

A idiosyncratic astatine a adjacent edifice was passing erstwhile the weapon play unfolded.

They told Metro: ‘The guys looked similar they knew who they were looking for. I saw them spell successful – it looked planned, similar pack stuff.

‘I unrecorded successful the country not acold from present and it’s a antithetic world. A batch of pack violence. They usually steer wide of present though due to the fact that it’s truthful nationalist and tons of information due to the fact that it’s truthful costly what with luxury ticker shops and things similar that.’

Tashas is adjacent to Wagamama’s connected Prospect Way, successful the bustling luxury Battersea Power Station development.

The South African-owned concatenation of 21 restaurants is renowned for its brunch menu. The improvement has dozens of CCTV cameras including 2 straight extracurricular the restaurant. There are besides cameras wrong the eatery.

Home to the US Embassy aft a large regeneration successful caller years, a penthouse successful the improvement costs astatine slightest £7m, portion a 1 chamber level is upwards of £800,000.

But it sits connected the fringes of an country wherever traditionally southbound London gangs person operated with agelong moving feuds.

The Nine Elms-based Wano/TOG/17 pack is arch enemies with the Hillside alliance, who are based Tulse Hill Streatham Hill and Brixton Hill.

A information defender connected patrol adjacent Tashas told Metro: ‘There are problems with gangs circular and astir but not usually present due to the fact that determination is choky information and loads of cameras.

‘It’s a daze and a large hazard for them to people idiosyncratic here.’

A spokesperson for Tashas Group said: ‘Four unidentified individuals entered the edifice and confronted a array of guests causing a commotion. There were nary weapons, but a pocketknife, contrary to what has been reported successful the media.

‘Our squad responded swiftly and decisively, instantly alerting the constabulary who aboriginal apprehended the suspects by identifying their car registration connected the CCTV footage from the restaurant.

‘We stay committed to providing a welcoming and harmless abstraction for our guests and unit and volition proceed to enactment proactively to uphold these standards.’

Metro has contacted the constabulary for comment.

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