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Bicycle thieves: smartphones beware!

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Commuters and pedestrians are being targeted for their smartphones by thieves on bicycles in the capital’s fastest growing crime spree.

Shocking new figures revealed by Scotland Yard, show how more than 170 iPhones are being stolen every day in London, with a total of 28,800 reports to police in London in the six months between April and September this year.

In recent weeks police have handed out leaflets around Warwick Avenue tube station while there have also been reports of spates of bicycle muggings in Primrose Hill, Islington, Stoke Newington, Chancery Lane and Clapham.

Rob Garner, 30, was walking across Bedford Avenue, off Tottenham Court Road, reading a text on his Blackberry at lunchtime yesterday when a bicycle mugger snatched it from his hands: “I chased after him as he went down Great Russell Street but he pedaled way too fast for me.” He then added: “I relied on my phone for work, it had all my contacts on it.”

Police are now warning people to be aware of their surroundings when using mobile phones, especially as they leave Tube stations, and to try to avoid texting and walking at the same time.

More background on the story at the Evening Standard website.

Photo courtesy of Stevendepolo

By Jonathan Shkurko


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