Passers-by stand and stare as thieves make off with £50,000 in gems
A WEST END jeweller in Piccadilly, London, was the latest victim of motorcycle-riding thieves yesterday, when a gang performed a daring smash'n'grab robbery in the middle of the day.The gang, armed with sledge hammers, smashed their way into into Mappin & Webb's Piccadilly store in the West End, before making off with goods worth around £50,000.
The gang, made up of five men on three bikes, took less than a few minutes to take their haul. A lookout rider, on what's believed to be a KTM Duke, stands guard as the thieves make their daring raid.Cont...
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Is it just me or is labelling these people a 'motorbike gang' not doing us any favours? What evidence is there that this is a 'motorbike gang'? These are a group of robbers who happen to be using bikes as getaway vehicles. If they chose a transit would they be a 'van gang'?
Joe public already see us as anti-social speeding polluters- last thing we need is to be associated with crime as well!
Damn bikers!!!
They'll be stealing our children next!!!
Joking aside - if you wanted to make a quick getaway in London a bike is perfect. The gang knew this and used it to their full advantage. They were miles away before the Police even turned up.
CCTV will have tracked them but still didn't get them caught!!!
There's a gang of them...and they're on bikes. Hard to describe them any other way really.
If they were in a van they'd add to the assertion that white van men are up to no good.